The association between screen exposure and autism spectrum disorder in children: meta-analysis.

IF 3 4区医学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Reviews on Environmental Health Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI:10.1515/reveh-2024-0147

Hezuo Liu, Xiaohong Zhu, Bin Ge, Minhui Huang, Xing Li

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Abstract

Introduction: The goal is to provide light on the contentious relationship between screen exposure and childhood autism spectrum disorder (ASD). By conducting two meta-analyses that showed a potential association, including screen exposure effect by ASD and ASD risk by screen exposure, we aimed to clarify the potential causality between screen exposure and childhood ASD.

Content: The literature published up to December 2023 were systematically collected, and the combined effect values of weighted mean difference (WMD) and 95 % confidence interval (CI) and odds ratio (OR) and 95 % CI were calculated using two meta-analyses using the STATA 12.0. A total of 197,357 children, including 4,599 childhood ASD, were finally included in 10 studies. The results showed that children with ASD had higher levels of screen time exposure than healthy controls (combined effect value WMD=0.27, 95 % CI: 0.12-0.41, p<0.001). An increased risk of ASD was also found in children with high screen exposure compared to the low screen exposure group (OR=1.5395 % CI: 1.14-2.06).

Summary and outlook: The development of childhood ASD may be associated with screen exposure. Future prospective studies are needed to verify the relationship between screen exposure and ASD in children.

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儿童屏幕暴露与自闭症谱系障碍之间的关系：荟萃分析。

目的是阐明屏幕暴露与儿童自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）之间有争议的关系。通过进行两项显示潜在关联的荟萃分析，包括ASD的屏幕暴露效应和屏幕暴露导致的ASD风险，我们旨在阐明屏幕暴露与儿童ASD之间的潜在因果关系。内容：系统收集截至2023年12月发表的文献，采用STATA 12.0进行两次meta分析，计算加权平均差（WMD）、95 %置信区间（CI）、比值比（OR）和95 % CI的联合效应值。共有197,357名儿童，其中包括4,599名儿童ASD，最终纳入了10项研究。结果显示，ASD儿童的屏幕时间暴露水平高于健康对照组（综合效应值WMD=0.27, 95 % CI: 0.12-0.41, p）。未来的前瞻性研究需要验证屏幕暴露与儿童ASD之间的关系。

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Reviews on Environmental Health Social Sciences-Health (social science)

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7.20

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2.60%

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