Prevalence and Behavioral-Emotional Correlates of Excessive Screen Time among Children in Upper Egypt: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: This is a cross-sectional comparative study to access the impact of screen time for long time daily on the behaviors, emotions and cognitive abilities in the school aged children. Objectives: Studying the effect of long-time daily screen time using and its correlates to the commonest emotional, behavioral, and cognitive disorders in children, which were aggression and bad academic performance. Patients and Methods: 300 children in 2 equal groups (case, control) to compare between them in their screen time using and the levels of the aggressive and academic performance, accessed by validated translated into Arabic questionnaires to study the correlation among them with different gender, age, and socioeconomic levels of the school aged children in both groups. Results: There was a highly significant difference between both case and control group children in relation to screen time, aggression levels and the academic performance levels. Conclusion: The importance of parental control of their children’s screen time and applying strict boundaries and limits for the quantity and quality of screens using.