Title
The association between screen time and mental health during COVID-19: A cross sectional study
Campus Units
Kinesiology
Document Type
Letter to the Editor
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
10-2020
Journal or Book Title
Psychiatry Research
Volume
292
First Page
113333
DOI
10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113333
Abstract
Dear editor,
COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in March 2020. To prevent transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on 23rd March 2020 the UK government issued guidance that all citizens should stay at home, and only leave their house for essential medical care, shopping for food and medicine and for one period of exercise (National Health Service, 2020). The impact of following the guidance on health-related behaviours is largely unknown. With people spending large periods of time indoors, screen time (e.g. watching TV, using computers, tablets etc) is likely to increase. Excessive screen time use has been shown to be associated with a range of negative mental health outcomes (Allen et al., 2019; Huang et al., 2020; Teychenne et al., 2015).
Therefore, we aimed to investigate levels and correlates of screen time during COVID-19 self-isolation in a sample of the UK public, and its association with mental health.
Creative Commons License
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Copyright Owner
The Author(s)
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Smith, Lee; Jacob, Louis; Trott, Mike; Yakkundi, Anita; Butler, Laurie; Barnett, Yvonne; Armstrong, Nicola C.; McDermott, Daragh; Schuch, Felipe; Meyer, Jacob; López-Bueno, Rubén; López Sánchez, Guillermo F.; Bradley, Declan; and Tully, Mark A., "The association between screen time and mental health during COVID-19: A cross sectional study" (2020). Kinesiology Publications. 85.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/kin_pubs/85
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Comments
This article is published as Lee Smith, Louis Jacob, Mike Trott, Anita Yakkundi, Laurie Butler, Yvonne Barnett, Nicola C Armstrong, Daragh McDermott, Felipe Schuch, Jacob Meyer, Rubén López-Bueno, Guillermo F. López Sánchez, Declan Bradley, Mark A Tully, The association between screen time and mental health during COVID-19: A cross sectional study, Psychiatry Research, 2020, Volume 292; 113333. Doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113333.