Impact of Exposure to Television and Electronic Devices on Attention and Language in Children

Language Development Clinical Trial

Official title:

Impact of Exposure to Television and Electronic Devices on Attention and Language in Children

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05659238
• Other study ID #: language development and TV
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: April 20, 2023
• Est. completion date: April 2024

Study information

• Verified date: February 2023
• Source: Assiut University
• Contact: Ann Gamal, master
• Phone: 01272287397
• Email: Annon.gamal9[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The objective is to examine association between TV exposure ,mobile device use and other electronic devices on attention and language development in children.

Description:

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.

Other researches proved that young children who spend more time on touch screen devices were more likely to have emotional problems .

In this study the investigators will discuss the positive and negative effects of screen exposure on attention and langage development of children.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: April 2024
• Est. primary completion date: April 2024
• Gender: All
• Age group: 2 Years to 6 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Children aged from 2-6 years collected from clinics of phoniatrics.

2. A questionnaire will be given to their mothers inquiring about

1. the age of child at first exposure to TV or electronic devices .

2. the time of exposure to TV or electronic devices /day

3. duration of viewing TV or electronic devices from first exposure until participation of this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. IQ test less than 80 (any mental disabilities )

2. Hearing impairement .

3. physical or motor.

4. history of active language intervention before study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Language Development

Intervention

Behavioral:
• the effect on language development & attention
Tv & other electronic devices effects onn children's language development & attention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
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Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assiut University

References & Publications (13)

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COUNCIL ON COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA. Media and Young Minds. Pediatrics. 2016 Nov;138(5):e20162591. doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-2591. — View Citation

Domingues-Montanari S. Clinical and psychological effects of excessive screen time on children. J Paediatr Child Health. 2017 Apr;53(4):333-338. doi: 10.1111/jpc.13462. Epub 2017 Feb 6. — View Citation

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Lin HP, Chen KL, Chou W, Yuan KS, Yen SY, Chen YS, Chow JC. Prolonged touch screen device usage is associated with emotional and behavioral problems, but not language delay, in toddlers. Infant Behav Dev. 2020 Feb;58:101424. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101424. Epub 2020 Feb 28. — View Citation

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Ruangdaraganon N, Chuthapisith J, Mo-suwan L, Kriweradechachai S, Udomsubpayakul U, Choprapawon C. Television viewing in Thai infants and toddlers: impacts to language development and parental perceptions. BMC Pediatr. 2009 May 22;9:34. doi: 10.1186/1471-2431-9-34. — View Citation

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Tran P, Subrahmanyam K. Evidence-based guidelines for the informal use of computers by children to promote the development of academic, cognitive and social skills. Ergonomics. 2013;56(9):1349-62. doi: 10.1080/00140139.2013.820843. Epub 2013 Aug 7. — View Citation

van den Heuvel M, Ma J, Borkhoff CM, Koroshegyi C, Dai DWH, Parkin PC, Maguire JL, Birken CS; TARGet Kids! Collaboration. Mobile Media Device Use is Associated with Expressive Language Delay in 18-Month-Old Children. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2019 Feb/Mar;40(2):99-104. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000630. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Impact of exposure to television & electronic devices on attention in children.	-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)	baseline
Primary	Exposure to television & electronic devices	-Assess time of exposure by asking parents about Age of onset of screen exposure( in years)& duration of screen exposure( by hours).	baseline
Secondary	Impact of exposure to television& electronic devices on language development in children	1-Assessment of receptive language in children; Application of Arabic language test (prepared by Nahla Abdelaziz Refaey 2004)(numerical)(continous number) (higher value 100 and lower value 0 , higher value is better outcome) 2-Assessment of expressive language development in children; Application of Arabic language test (prepared by Nahla Abdelaziz Refaey 2004)(numerical)(continous number) (higher value 100 and lower value 0 , higher value is better outcome) 3-Semantics score in language development in children; Application of Arabic language test (prepared by Nahla Abdelaziz Refaey 2004)(numerical)(continous number) (higher value 100 and lower value 0 , higher value is better outcome)	baseline