Screen Time Use Among US Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study

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The Role of the Pediatrician in the Promotion of Healthy, Active Living

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Screen Time from Adolescence to Adulthood and Cardiometabolic Disease: a Prospective Cohort Study

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Longitudinal associations of screen time, physical activity, and sleep duration with body mass index in U.S. youth

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on screen time and sleep in early adolescents.

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Association between quality of sleep and screen time during the COVID‐19 outbreak among adolescents in the United Arab Emirates

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Social media platforms generate billions of dollars in revenue from U.S. youth: Findings from a simulated revenue model

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Family factors related to adolescent screen media use and mental health outcomes: A systematic review and recommendation for practices

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The association between time spent on screens and reading with myopia, premyopia and ocular biometric and anthropometric measures in 6‐ to 7‐year‐old schoolchildren in Ireland

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Youth Screen Media Activity Patterns and Associations With Behavioral Developmental Measures and Resting-state Brain Functional Connectivity

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Explaining variation in adolescents’ social media-related distraction: The role of social connectivity and disconnectivity factors

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Screen Time and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Among Children 9–10 Years Old: A Prospective Cohort Study

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Probing the digital exposome: associations of social media use patterns with youth mental health

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Screen time and pediatric headache: A scoping review of the literature

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Association of physical activity and screen time with cardiovascular disease risk in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study

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Mental Well-Being Among Adversity-Exposed Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Parent-Adolescent Discrepancies in Adolescent Recreational Screen Time Reporting During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

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Precocious Puberty Diagnoses Spike, COVID-19 Pandemic, and Body Mass Index: Findings From a 4-year Study

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A Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Adolescent Social Media Users: A Quasi-Experimental Study

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Mental Healthcare Utilization, Modalities, and Disruptions During Spring 2021 of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among U.S. Adolescents

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Cyberbullying, mental health, and substance use experimentation among early adolescents: a prospective cohort study

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“Everything kind of revolves around technology”: a qualitative exploration of families’ screen use experiences, and intervention suggestions

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Family conflict and less parental monitoring were associated with greater screen time in early adolescence

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COVID-19 and the gendered impacts on adolescent wellbeing: Evidence from a cross-sectional study of locally adapted measures in Ethiopia, Jordan, and Palestine

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Influence of Screen Time during COVID-19 on Health-Related Quality of Life of Early Adolescents

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Digital Media-related Problems Contributing to Psychiatric Hospitalizations Among Children and Adolescents Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Longitudinal analysis of the ABCD® study

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Cyberbullying Victimization Among Transgender and Gender-Questioning Early Adolescents

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