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Salimi keleshteri B, Salehi komroodi M, Kargar khorami F, Jafari S. (2025). The relationship between the duration of working with digital screens with autism symptoms and psycho-motor development coefficient in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Childhood Health and Education. 6(2),
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Introduction: Electronic screens play an increasing role in the entertainment of not only growing (normal) children but also children with autism. Therefore, the present study aims to compare the time spent using digital screens between children with and without autism and the relationship between the duration of working with digital screens and Autism symptoms and psycho-motor growth factor in children with autism spectrum disorder were investigated.
Research method: The current research was causal-comparative. The statistical population of the research includes; All children aged 3 to 12 years who visited the autism center and kindergartens in Semnan city from July 2022 to July 2023, the sample size was determined based on Cochran's formula and 25 autistic children and 25 normal children were included in the study. Autistic children were divided into subgroups according to the duration of using digital screens and age. Gilliam's Autism Scoring Scale (1994), Lifestyle Checklist and Measurement of the Use of Digital Devices (2017), Unusual Behavior Checklist (1985), Gesell's Motor Development Questionnaire (1930) were used to collect data. SPSS26 software was used for data analysis.
Results: The findings of this research showed that there is a significant relationship between the time spent working with digital screens and autism symptoms (r = 0.242, p = 0.021) and the longer the time spent on the screen, the more obvious the symptoms of autism become, and children on the autism spectrum have an average score of 64. They use the digital screen 34.3±2 hours a day, while normal children's screen time was only 0.91±0.93 hours a day; Also, the results showed that the time spent using the digital screen in children with autism had a positive relationship with the symptoms of autism in the Karz test, and no correlation was observed between the time spent on the screen and the score of the scale of unusual behavior and the motor growth coefficient of Gazelle.
Conclusion: Compared to normal children, children with autism spend more time on the screen, also the time spent on the screen is related to the symptoms of autism and the developmental delay of children with autism, and the longer the time spent working with digital screens, the symptoms of autism (especially sensory symptoms) It is more severe and developmental delays are more evident, especially in younger autistic children with lower vocabularies.
Research method: The current research was causal-comparative. The statistical population of the research includes; All children aged 3 to 12 years who visited the autism center and kindergartens in Semnan city from July 2022 to July 2023, the sample size was determined based on Cochran's formula and 25 autistic children and 25 normal children were included in the study. Autistic children were divided into subgroups according to the duration of using digital screens and age. Gilliam's Autism Scoring Scale (1994), Lifestyle Checklist and Measurement of the Use of Digital Devices (2017), Unusual Behavior Checklist (1985), Gesell's Motor Development Questionnaire (1930) were used to collect data. SPSS26 software was used for data analysis.
Results: The findings of this research showed that there is a significant relationship between the time spent working with digital screens and autism symptoms (r = 0.242, p = 0.021) and the longer the time spent on the screen, the more obvious the symptoms of autism become, and children on the autism spectrum have an average score of 64. They use the digital screen 34.3±2 hours a day, while normal children's screen time was only 0.91±0.93 hours a day; Also, the results showed that the time spent using the digital screen in children with autism had a positive relationship with the symptoms of autism in the Karz test, and no correlation was observed between the time spent on the screen and the score of the scale of unusual behavior and the motor growth coefficient of Gazelle.
Conclusion: Compared to normal children, children with autism spend more time on the screen, also the time spent on the screen is related to the symptoms of autism and the developmental delay of children with autism, and the longer the time spent working with digital screens, the symptoms of autism (especially sensory symptoms) It is more severe and developmental delays are more evident, especially in younger autistic children with lower vocabularies.
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Received: 2025/02/23 | Accepted: 2025/07/1 | Published: 2025/07/1
Received: 2025/02/23 | Accepted: 2025/07/1 | Published: 2025/07/1
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