Abdulla, Faruq, Hossain, Moyazzem, Huq, Mohammed, Hai, Abdul, Rahman, Azizur, Kabir, Russell, Peya, Farhana, Islam, Sinigdha and Khan, Hafiz T.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1817-3730 (2023) Prevalence, determinants and consequences of problematic smartphone use among preschoolers (3–5 years) from Dhaka, Bangladesh: a cross-sectional investigation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 329. pp. 413-427. ISSN 0165-0327

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Abstract

The problematic smartphone use (PSU) has been becoming a challenging health issue for preschoolers aged 3–5 years as it has severe adverse effect on their psychological, physical, and cognitive development. The scarcity of scientific research on this issue in the context of Bangladesh motivated the authors for conducting this cross-sectional study to explore the prevalence of PSU with its influential factors and adverse effects on preschooler's psychological and physical development based on primary data collected from 400 mothers. The multivariable ordinal logistic regression (OLR) was used to compute the adjusted likelihoods. The estimated prevalence of PSU was approximately 86 %, where about 29 % were severely problematic user. The likelihood of preschoolers' PSU was observed to increase with >1 h/day usage of smartphone by children (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR): 3.92). Other important factors were parental smartphone use, education, profession, family income, and mother's age. Both of moderate and severe PSU had adverse effect on preschoolers' health- severe PSU was found to increase the likelihood of psychological and physical problems by 6.03 and 3.29 times, respectively. The preschoolers with PSU reported to suffer from many physical and mental health problems such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), emotional instability, aggressiveness, depression, lack of control, impaired vision and hearing, obesity, body imbalance, and lack of brain development. It is now prime time to undertake strategic policies considering the findings for limiting the preschoolers' usage of smartphone, which will make Bangladesh susceptible to protect its future generation from harmful effects of PSU.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.1016/j.jad.2023.02.094
Keywords:	Smartphone, Problematic smartphone use, Preschooler, Cognitive development, Mental and physical health problem, Bangladesh
Subjects:	Medicine and health > Health promotion and public health Medicine and health > Mental health
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Depositing User:	Hafiz T.A. Khan
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2023 10:57
Last Modified:	27 Feb 2024 02:45
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/9827

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