Question Among adolescents and young adults with concussion, what is the clinical efficacy of unrestricted screen time, compared with screen-time abstinence, as measured by the Post-Concussive Symptom Scale (PCSS)? Design Single-center parallel-design randomized clinical trial. Setting University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. Participants Children 12-25 years old, presenting to the ED within 24 hours of a head injury. Intervention Screen time permitted vs abstinence for 48 hours after injury. Outcomes Days to resolution of symptoms (resolution = PCSS score ≤ 3). Main Results Median recovery time and screen-time minutes were longer in the screen-time permitted group compared with the abstinence group: 8.0 days and 630 minutes compared with 3.5 days and 130 minutes, P = .03 for recovery time, non-overlapping interquartile ranges for screen-time minutes, respectively. Conclusions Screen–time abstinence improves concussion recovery time.
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LA - en SN - 0022-3476 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.04.054 ID - ref1 ER -