@article{ref1,
title="Screen-based behaviour in school-aged children with long-term illness",
journal="BMC public health",
year="2016",
author="Husarova, Daniela and Geckova, Andrea Madarasova and Blinka, Lukas and Ševčíková, Anna and van Dijk, Jitse P. and Reijneveld, Sijmen A.",
volume="16",
number="1",
pages="130-130",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Evidence is lacking on the screen-based behaviour of adolescents with a chronic condition. The aim of our study was to analyse differences in screen-based behaviour of adolescents by long-term illness, asthma and learning disabilities. <br><br>METHODS: We used data from the cross-sectional Health Behaviour of School-aged Children study collected in 2014 among Slovak adolescents (age 13 to 15 years old, N = 2682, 49.7 % boys). We analysed the associations between screen-based behaviour and long-term illness, asthma and learning disabilities using logistic regression models adjusted for gender. <br><br>RESULTS: We found no associations between screen-based behaviour and long-term illness, except that children with asthma had a 1.60-times higher odds of excessively playing computer games than healthy children (95 % confidence interval of odds ratio (CI): 1.11-2.30). Children with learning disabilities had 1.71-times higher odds of risky use of the Internet (95 % CI: 1.19-2.45). <br><br>CONCLUSION: Adolescents with a long-term illness or with a chronic condition or a learning disability do not differ from their peers in screen-based activities. Exceptions are children with asthma and children with learning disabilities, who reported more risky screen-based behaviour.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1471-2458",
doi="10.1186/s12889-016-2804-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2804-8"
}