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. 2023 Feb 15;28(1):10. doi: 10.1007/s40519-023-01550-7

Table 2.

Associations between screen time and MDDI total score by gender among participants from the Canadian Study of Adolescent Health Behaviors (N = 2538)

Women
n = 1477
Men
n = 1061
na b (95% CI)b p na b (95% CI)b p
Watch TV 1181 0.24 (0.01, 0.48) 0.040 870 0.02 (− 0.26, 0.30) 0.880
Watch videos 1170 0.35 (0.06, 0.64) 0.018 855 0.32 (− 0.05, 0.68) 0.088
Video games 1181 0.17 (− 0.26, 0.59) 0.444 867 − 0.28 (− 0.70, 0.14) 0.196
Social media 1182 0.20 (− 0.03, 0.43) 0.087 868 0.99 (0.67, 1.31)  < 0.001
Texting 1181 0.26 (0.04, 0.47) 0.019 869 0.66 (0.36, 0.95)  < 0.001
Video chat 1181 0.42 (0.03, 0.81) 0.035 866 − 0.06 (− 0.52, 0.40) 0.807
Total screen time 1153 0.18 (0.14, 0.22)  < 0.001 840 0.22 (0.17, 0.27)  < 0.001

Each cell represented the abbreviated outputs of 14 linear regression models with screen time and social media as the independent variables and MDDI total score as the dependent variable. Values in bold are significant with p < 0.05

MDDI, muscle dysmorphic disorder inventory; CI, confidence interval

aNumber of observations for each individual linear regression model

bAnalyses adjusted for body mass index, race/ethnicity, sexual identity, and highest level of education completed