Association of sex, sexual maturation, age group, economic class, and nutritional status with the different cutoff points of screen time in adolescents

Abstract Objectives: to estimate the prevalence of adolescents’ screen time in three different scenarios and possible associations with gender, sexual maturation, age group, economic class, nutritional status. Methods: a cross-sectional study conducted representative sample 3,979 adolescents from Greater Curitiba. Screen (television, computer, video game) was self-reported categorized as ≤2h/day, >2 ≤4h/day, >4h/day. Ordinal logistic regression tested associations. Results: consisted 14.60±1.88 years old, most girls (51.2%). The >4h/day 89.3%. Girls (OR=0.61; CI95%=0.49-0.76) older groups (“14 16 years” OR=0.29; CI95%=0.22-0.39, “17 19 OR=0.11; CI95%=0.08-0.16) were less likely be higher time. Conclusions: above four hours seems prevalent among adolescents. Older teens are have