斯坦福：Children born early at risk from too much screen time

 

October 4, 2021

Children born very prematurely are at risk for cognitive and behavioral problems linked to excess screen time, a Stanford Medicine-led study shows.

Research has linked excessive screen time to cognitive and behavioral problems in the general population of children, leading the American Academy of Pediatrics to recommend that parents limit their children's daily screen exposure to no more than two hours per day. But the connection between screen time and cognitive or behavioral challenges had not been previously studied in very premature kids.

In the study, which appeared recently in JAMA Pediatrics, more than two hours of daily screen time was correlated with lower IQ and a variety of behavioral issues in 6- and 7-year-old children who were born 12 to 16 weeks early, or around the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy. These children may be especially vulnerable to detrimental effects of excess screen time because of the neurological risks due to premature births, the research team said.

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2021/10/04/children-born-early-at-risk-from-too-much-screen-time/