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Relationship Between Screen Time Duration and Sleep Duration with Emotional Behavioral Problems in Preschool Children in Kindergartens In Denpasar City

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Emotional behavioral problems in children are quite serious problems because they affect their development, cause disabilities, reduce their productivity and quality of life. In this digital era, the use of gadgets has become a habit and has been introduced to children since preschool age. Excessive screen time can have an impact on children's sleep quality, one of which is reduced sleep duration. Excessive screen time and insufficient sleep duration are often associated with the child's development process. This study aims to prove that screen time and sleep duration have a significant relationship with the incidence of emotional behavioral problems in preschool children in Denpasar City Kindergartens. This study used a cross-sectional design with an analytical method conducted during the period January 2024–March 2024 using the emotional behavior problems questionnaire. The sample size used was total sampling in the research sampling, which was 108 children. For the result mental emotional problems experienced in 38.9% subjects. The gender that experienced the most mental emotional problems was male at 52.4%. Working and highly educated mothers were more dominant in children who experienced mental emotional problems with a percentage of 69% and 78.6%. Children who experienced complications at birth were 9.5% experiencing mental emotional problems. There was a significant relationship between screen time duration (p=0.045 [PR 2.25; 95% CI 1.01-5.04]) and sleep duration (p=0.023 [PR 2.66; 95% CI 1.12-6.29]) with emotional behavioral problems in preschool children. Screen time >1 hour and sleep duration <11 hours have been shown to have a significant relationship with emotional behavioral problems in preschool-aged children.

Source: American Journal of Pediatrics

DOI: 10.11648/j.ajp.20251102.21

Authors: Putu Prameswari, I Windiani, I Adnyana

Institution: Udayana University

Language: English

Topic: Child Development and Digital Technology

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Universitas Udayana