Prevalence of delayed language acquisition with smartphone usage in toddlers in Erbil city-Iraq
Background & Objectives: Worldwide, speech delay is the most common developmental disorder in 3 to 6-year-old children. In the normal population, many children have speech delays, of which more than one-third of them will not resolve spontaneously and need further management.The aim of the stud...
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| Language: | English |
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Kurdistan Higher Council Of Medical Specialties
2023-05-01
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| Series: | Advanced Medical Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://amj.khcms.edu.krd/index.php/main/article/view/204 |
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| Summary: | Background & Objectives: Worldwide, speech delay is the most common developmental disorder in 3 to 6-year-old children. In the normal population, many children have speech delays, of which more than one-third of them will not resolve spontaneously and need further management.The aim of the study was to find any statistical correlation of speech delay with smart phone usage .
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted and data were collected from randomly selected 300 toddlers aged 12-36 months who attended two rimary health care centers in Erbil city-Iraq during the period from the 1st of January 2020 to the end of January 2021. A designed questionnaire was used to assess the speech delay in the toddlers and evaluate factors that may affect language development including (socio-echonomic state, hours of use, type of videos…etc)
Results: The mean age of the study participants was 26.7months. Despite the higher percentage of speech delay in the user group (among which the delay was more in those watching non-age-appropriate videos than age-appropriate videos with percentages of 84%, 53.2% respectively) than the nonuser group, but it was statistically non-significant. The delay was more prominent among those using smart devices for four hours or more (76.1%).the percentage of delayed speech was higher in those who watch videos with same mother language (76.9%)with lower in those with other language videos (53.1%).
Conclusion: Prevalence of speech delay was higher in toddlers using smart phone with significant increase in the percentage of delay associated with longer duration of usage.
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| ISSN: | 2958-8979 2957-3580 |