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The Impact of Early Electronic Screen Media Exposure on Children

A longitudinal follow-up study of the impact of electronic media exposure during infancy on executive function, intelligence, academic achievement, behaviors, and sleep in 6-year-old children

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
TCTR
Registry ID
TCTR20200426003
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2020-04-26
Start date
2018-02-18
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-08-03

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Conditions

Executive function&#44

Interventions

Two hundred and fifty&#45
nine children who were recruited in our previous cohort since 6 months or 3 years of age were contacted for the follow&#45
up visit at 6 years of age.
Prevention
Healthy children aged 6 years

Sponsors

Ratchadapiseksompotch Fund, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University (RA59/022 and RA61/047)
Lead Sponsor
Institutional research grant from Thailand Research Fund (grant number IRG5780015)
Collaborator

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
72 Months to 75 Months

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: From August 2012 to March 2014, 291 healthy infants with typical development were originally enrolled at age 6 months. Inclusion criteria were singleton full-term birth with birth weight of ≥2500 g; no pre-, peri-, and postnatal complications; no underlying medical illnesses; having normal growth and typical development documented by using the Cognitive Adaptive Test/Clinical Linguistic and Auditory Milestone Scale (CAT/CLAMS). Two hundred and fifty-nine children who were recruited in our previous cohort since 6 months or 3 years of age were contacted for the follow-up visit at 6 years of age.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Those who had not been contacted nor refused to participate in this study at the 6-year follow-up visit

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Executive function At age 3, 4, and 6 years Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) and various EF tasks

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Intelligence Quotient and academic achievement At age 6 years Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence-Second Edition (WASI-II) and WRAT,sleep At age 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 years Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ)

Countries

Thailand

Contacts

Public ContactWeerasak Chonchaiya

Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University

weerasak.ch@chula.ac.th662-2564943

Outcome results

None listed

Source: TCTR (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Aug 9, 2026