Maternal cell phone use in early pregnancy and child’s language, communication and motor skills at 3 and 5 years: the Norwegian mother and child cohort study (MoBa)

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• dc.contributor.author Papadopoulou, Eleni, 1985-
• dc.contributor.author Haugen, Margaretha
• dc.contributor.author Schjølberg, Synnve
• dc.contributor.author Magnus, Per
• dc.contributor.author Brunborg, Gunnar
• dc.contributor.author Vrijheid, Martine
• dc.contributor.author Alexander, Jan
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-28T10:09:12Z
• dc.date.available 2024-05-28T10:09:12Z
• dc.date.issued 2017
• dc.description.abstract Background. Cell phone use during pregnancy is a public health concern. We investigated the association between maternal cell phone use in pregnancy and child’s language, communication and motor skills at 3 and 5 years. Methods. This prospective study includes 45,389 mother-child pairs, participants of the MoBa, recruited at mid-pregnancy from 1999 to 2008. Maternal frequency of cell phone use in early pregnancy and child language, communication and motor skills at 3 and 5 years, were assessed by questionnaires. Logistic regression was used to estimate the associations. Results. No cell phone use in early pregnancy was reported by 9.8% of women, while 39%, 46.9% and 4.3% of the women were categorized as low, medium and high cell phone users. Children of cell phone user mothers had 17% (OR = 0.83, 95% CI: 0.77, 0.89) lower adjusted risk of having low sentence complexity at 3 years, compared to children of non-users. The risk was 13%, 22% and 29% lower by low, medium and high maternal cell phone use. Additionally, children of cell phone users had lower risk of low motor skills score at 3 years, compared to children of non-users, but this association was not found at 5 years. We found no association between maternal cell phone use and low communication skills. Conclusions. We reported a decreased risk of low language and motor skills at three years in relation to prenatal cell phone use, which might be explained by enhanced maternal-child interaction among cell phone users. No evidence of adverse neurodevelopmental effects of prenatal cell phone use was reported.
• dc.description.sponsorship The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement no 603794 – the GERONIMO project. The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study are supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services and the Ministry of Education and Research, NIH/NIEHS (contract no N01-ES-75558), NIH/NINDS (grant no.1 UO1 NS 047537–01 and grant no.2 UO1 NS 047537-06A1).
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• dc.identifier.citation Papadopoulou E, Haugen M, Schjølberg S, Magnus P, Brunborg G, Vrijheid M, et al. Maternal cell phone use in early pregnancy and child’s language, communication and motor skills at 3 and 5 years: the Norwegian mother and child cohort study (MoBa). BMC Public Health. 2017 Dec;17(1):685. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-017-4672-2
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4672-2
• dc.identifier.issn 1471-2458
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60264
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher BioMed Central
• dc.relation.ispartof BMC Public Health. 2017 Dec;17(1):685
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/603794
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• dc.subject.keyword Cell phone users
• dc.subject.keyword Mother-child pairs
• dc.subject.keyword Motor skill scores
• dc.subject.keyword Incomplete grammar
• dc.subject.keyword Pregnancy-related characteristics
• dc.title Maternal cell phone use in early pregnancy and child’s language, communication and motor skills at 3 and 5 years: the Norwegian mother and child cohort study (MoBa)
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