Imperial College London
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Professor Mireille B Toledano

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Mohn Chair; Population Child Health & Director-Mohn Centre
 
 
 
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m.toledano Website

 
 
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Location

 

525Medical SchoolSt Mary's Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Girela:2022:10.1007/s00787-022-02012-8,
author = {Girela, Serrano BM and Spiers, A and Ruotong, L and Gangadia, S and Toledano, MB and Di, Simplicio M},
doi = {10.1007/s00787-022-02012-8},
journal = {European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: official journal of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry},
title = {Impact of mobile phones and wireless devices use on children and adolescents´ mental health: a systematic review},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-02012-8},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Growing use of mobiles phones (MP) and other wireless devices (WD) has raised concerns about their possible effects on children and adolescents’ wellbeing. Understanding whether these technologies affect children and adolescents’ mental health in positive or detrimental ways has become more urgent following further increase in use since the COVID-19 outbreak. To review the empirical evidence on associations between use of MP/WD and mental health in children and adolescents. A systematic review of literature was carried out on Medline, Embase and PsycINFO for studies published prior to July 15th 2019, PROSPERO ID: CRD42019146750. 25 observational studies published between January 1st 2011 and 2019 were reviewed (ten were cohort studies, 15 were cross-sectional). Overall estimated participant mean age and proportion female were 14.6 years and 47%, respectively. Substantial between-study heterogeneity in design and measurement of MP/WD usage and mental health outcomes limited our ability to infer general conclusions. Observed effects differed depending on time and type of MP/WD usage. We found suggestive but limited evidence that greater use of MP/WD may be associated with poorer mental health in children and adolescents. Risk of bias was rated as ‘high’ for 16 studies, ‘moderate’ for five studies and ‘low’ for four studies. More high-quality longitudinal studies and mechanistic research are needed to clarify the role of sleep and of type of MP/WD use (e.g. social media) on mental health trajectories in children and adolescents.
AU  - Girela,Serrano BM
AU  - Spiers,A
AU  - Ruotong,L
AU  - Gangadia,S
AU  - Toledano,MB
AU  - Di,Simplicio M
DO  - 10.1007/s00787-022-02012-8
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 1018-8827
TI  - Impact of mobile phones and wireless devices use on children and adolescents´ mental health: a systematic review
T2  - European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: official journal of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-02012-8
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/97637
ER  -
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