Smartphone and tablet usage during COVID-19 pandemic confinement in children under 48 months in Barcelona (Spain)

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dc.contributor.author	Cartanyà-Hueso, Àurea
dc.contributor.author	Lidón Moyano, Cristina
dc.contributor.author	Cassanello Peñarroya, Pía
dc.contributor.author	Díez-Izquierdo, Ana
dc.contributor.author	Martín Sánchez, Juan Carlos
dc.contributor.author	Balaguer Santamaría, Albert
dc.contributor.author	Martínez Sánchez, Jose María
dc.date	2021-02-24T18:04:22Z
dc.date	2021-02-24T18:04:22Z
dc.date	2021
dc.identifier	Cartanyà-Hueso, Àurea; Lidón-Moyano, Cristina; Cassanello, Pia [et al.]. Smartphone and tablet usage during COVID-19 pandemic confinement in children under 48 months in Barcelona (Spain). Healthcare, 2021, 9(1), 96. Disponible en: <https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/1/96>. Fecha de acceso: 24 feb. 2021. DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9010096
dc.identifier	2227-9032
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12328/2018
dc.identifier	https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9010096
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12328/2018
dc.description	Background: Total lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic might have potentially increased screen time in children. This study aims to describe the smartphone and tablets usage in children under 48 months living in Barcelona during the COVID-19 confinement. Methods: Cross-sectional study using a non-probabilistic sample of parents with children under 48 months living in Barcelona (Spain) during COVID-19 confinement (n = 313). We calculated percentages of exposure to smartphones and tablets. Moreover, for those children were exposed, we calculated unadjusted and adjusted Geometric Mean Ratios (GMR) of daily smartphones and tablets usage and their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) trough Generalized Linear Models with Gamma family and link log. Associations were adjusted for potential confounders. Results: During COVID-19 confinement, 67.5% of children under 48 months were daily exposed to smartphones and tablets. Further, those children who were exposed during meals, as well as before going to bed, spend longer durations using them, aGMR = 2.38 (95% CI 1.73, 3.34) and aGMR = 1.95 (95% CI 1.34, 2.91) respectively. Conclusion: Two out of three children under 48 months living in Barcelona were daily exposed to smartphones and tablets during total lockdown due to COVID-19. Taking this findings into account cohort studies are needed to assess any change in the screen time patterns due to total confinement in order to allow the Government help families, particularly those more vulnerable, in a possible pandemic resurgence.
dc.format	8
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	MDPI
dc.relation	Healthcare
dc.relation	9;1
dc.rights	This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	COVID-19 (Malaltia)
dc.subject	Televisió i infants
dc.subject	Infants -- Salut i higiene
dc.subject	COVID-19
dc.subject	Televisión y niños
dc.subject	Niños -- Salud e higiene
dc.subject	COVID-19
dc.subject	Television and children
dc.subject	Children -- Health and hygiene
dc.subject	61
dc.title	Smartphone and tablet usage during COVID-19 pandemic confinement in children under 48 months in Barcelona (Spain)
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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