TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Screen-based behaviour in school-aged children with long-term illness
JO  - BMC public health
A1  - Husarova, Daniela
A1  - Geckova, Andrea Madarasova
A1  - Blinka, Lukas
A1  - Ševčíková, Anna
A1  - van Dijk, Jitse P.
A1  - Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
SP  - 130
EP  - 130
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1471-2458
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-2804-8
ID  - ref1
ER  -