Screen time and sleep among school-aged children and adolescents: A systematic literature review

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue , 2015, Pages 50-58

  Hale, Lauren ^a   Guan, Stanford ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children and adolescents; Electronic media; Media; Screen time; Sleep; Sleep duration; Total sleep time; Video games

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; EXPOSURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; JUVENILE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOBILE PHONE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PUBLICATION; RECREATION; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SLEEP; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TELEVISION VIEWING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPUTER; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TELEVISION; TIME FACTOR; UTILIZATION; VIDEO GAME;

ADOLESCENT; CELL PHONES; CHILD; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84928015654     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: 15322955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2014.07.007     Document Type: Review

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