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Maternal cell phone and cordless phone use during pregnancy and behaviour problems in 5-year-old children.
Guxens M, van Eijsden M, Vermeulen R, Loomans E, Vrijkotte TG, Komhout H, van Strien RT, Huss A. · 2013
View Original AbstractDutch study of 2,618 children found no significant link between maternal phone use during pregnancy and behavioral problems at age 5.
Plain English Summary
Researchers followed 2,618 Dutch children to see if mothers' cell phone and cordless phone use during pregnancy affected their children's behavior at age 5. They found no significant link between prenatal phone exposure and behavioral problems, whether reported by teachers or mothers. The study suggests that maternal phone use during pregnancy does not increase the likelihood of behavioral issues in young children.
Study Details
We assessed the association between maternal cell phone and cordless phone use during pregnancy and teacher-reported and maternal-reported child behaviour problems at age 5.
The study was embedded in the Amsterdam Born Children and their Development study, a population-base...
A total of 2618 children were included. As compared to non-users, those exposed to prenatal cell pho...
Our results do not suggest that maternal cell phone or cordless phone use during pregnancy increases the odds of behaviour problems in their children.
Show BibTeX
@article{m_2013_maternal_cell_phone_and_3055,
author = {Guxens M and van Eijsden M and Vermeulen R and Loomans E and Vrijkotte TG and Komhout H and van Strien RT and Huss A.},
title = {Maternal cell phone and cordless phone use during pregnancy and behaviour problems in 5-year-old children.},
year = {2013},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23386674/},
}