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Symptoms and Cognitive Functions in Adolescents in Relation to Mobile Phone Use during Night.
Schoeni A, Roser K, Röösli M. · 2015
View Original AbstractTeens awakened by phones monthly show 86% higher odds of daytime tiredness, even when total usage is controlled.
Plain English Summary
Researchers studied 439 Swiss adolescents to see how nighttime mobile phone interruptions affect their health and thinking abilities. They found that teens awakened by phones at least once monthly were 86% more likely to experience daytime tiredness and over twice as likely to feel rapidly exhausted. However, the interruptions didn't impair memory or concentration on cognitive tests, suggesting the main impact is on energy levels rather than mental performance.
Study Details
Many adolescents tend to leave their mobile phones turned on during night, accepting that they may be awakened by an incoming text message or call. Using self-reported and objective operator recorded mobile phone use data, we thus aimed to analyze how being awakened during night by mobile phone affects adolescents' perceived health and cognitive functions.
In this cross-sectional study, 439 adolescents completed questionnaires about their mobile phone use...
For adolescents reporting to be awakened by a mobile phone during night at least once a month the od...
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@article{a_2015_symptoms_and_cognitive_functions_3376,
author = {Schoeni A and Roser K and Röösli M.},
title = {Symptoms and Cognitive Functions in Adolescents in Relation to Mobile Phone Use during Night.},
year = {2015},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26222312/},
}