Impact of Exposure to Television and Electronic Devices on Attention and Language in Children
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 入组人数
- 200
- 主要终点
- Exposure to television & electronic devices
研究概览
简要总结
The objective is to examine association between TV exposure ,mobile device use and other electronic devices on attention and language development in children.
详细描述
During the last few years, the time spent in front of various screens including:TV Sets, vedio games, smart phones &computers has dramatically increased Television remains the predominant type of screen based activity among children.
Some studies showed that this trend has astrong negative influence on language development of children.
On the other hand.,other studies showed that infant directed informal computer use can be beneficial for language development in children.
Some studies proved that language development and vocabulary growth in young children are directly related to the amount of time parents spend speaking to them & also reported that on examining language perception learning &language production learning human human interactions had a strong influence on child's language development.
In spite of that, some parents believe that media content is educative for their children as increase their knowledge, other parents admitted to limiting their children's screen time to avoid conflict & social isolation or distract children as they encourage parent children education to reinforce their relationship with their children.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Control
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 2 Years 至 6 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Children aged from 2-6 years collected from clinics of phoniatrics.
- •A questionnaire will be given to their mothers inquiring about
- •the age of child at first exposure to TV or electronic devices .
- •the time of exposure to TV or electronic devices /day
- •duration of viewing TV or electronic devices from first exposure until participation of this study.
排除标准
- •IQ test less than 80 (any mental disabilities )
- •Hearing impairement .
- •physical or motor.
- •history of active language intervention before study.
结局指标
主要结局
Exposure to television & electronic devices
时间窗: baseline
-Assess time of exposure by asking parents about Age of onset of screen exposure( in years)\& duration of screen exposure( by hours).
Impact of exposure to television & electronic devices on attention in children.
时间窗: baseline
-Assessment of attention by Application of Gilliam 1995 for ADHD (numerical) (continous number) (\>131 above high )-(130-131 high )-(111-130 above average )- (90-110 average)-(80-89 below average)-(70-79 low)-(\<69 very low)
次要结局
- Impact of exposure to television& electronic devices on language development in children(baseline)
研究者
Ann Gamal Yousef
Principle investigator
Assiut University