Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Mobile phone use, behavioural problems and concentration capacity in adolescents: A prospective study.
Roser K, Schoeni A, Röösli M · 2016
View Original AbstractLong-term tracking of Swiss teens found no lasting behavioral or concentration effects from mobile phone use despite initial short-term associations.
Plain English Summary
Swiss researchers followed 439 adolescents aged 12-17 for one year to see if mobile phone use affected their behavior and concentration. While they found some short-term associations between phone use and behavioral problems, these disappeared when they tracked the teens over time. The study concluded that mobile phone radiation doesn't appear to cause lasting behavioral problems or concentration issues in adolescents.
Study Details
The aim of this study is to prospectively investigate whether exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) emitted by mobile phones and other wireless communication devices is related to behavioural problems or concentration capacity in adolescents.
The HERMES (Health Effects Related to Mobile phonE use in adolescentS) study sample consisted of 439...
In the cross-sectional analyses behavioural problems were associated with several self-reported wire...
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@article{k_2016_mobile_phone_use_behavioural_3335,
author = {Roser K and Schoeni A and Röösli M},
title = {Mobile phone use, behavioural problems and concentration capacity in adolescents: A prospective study. },
year = {2016},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27665258/},
}