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. 2023 Feb 16;14:1049102. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1049102

Table 2.

Digital overuse/Problematic use rates in reviewed studies.

Citation Country Digital overuse/Problematic use rate
Kim et al. (2021) South Korea NA
Konok et al. (2021) Hungary NA
Madigan et al. (2020) Canada 87.9%†
Velumani et al. (2021) India 82.2%†
Coyne et al. (2021) USA NA
Lehrl et al. (2021) Germany NA
Xie et al. (2020) China 54.8%†
Tay et al. (2021) Singapore 29.9%†
Anitha et al. (2021) India 28.1%*
Suherman et al. (2021) Indonesia 29.9%*
Cho and Lee (2017) South Korea 12.2%† (smartphone)
Özyurt et al. (2018) Turkey 39.6%† (TV)
Jusienė et al. (2020) Lithuania 48.1%†
Poulain et al. (2018) Germany 20.0%† (TV)
Baek et al. (2013) South Korea 28.6%† (Smartphone)
Keefe-Cooperman (2016) USA NA
Yalçin et al. (2021a) Turkey 22.5%*
Chang et al. (2018) South Korea 63.1%†
Yalçin et al. (2021b) Turkey 56.7%†
Zhao et al. (2018) China 78.6%†
Beyens and Nathanson (2019) Netherlands NA
Collings et al. (2018) UK 62.0%†
Cox et al. (2012) Australian NA
Sijtsma et al. (2015) Netherlands NA
Li et al. (2021) Australian NA
Hutton et al. (2020) USA NA
Cheung et al. (2017) UK NA
Gülay Ogelman et al. (2018) Turkey NA
McDaniel and Radesky (2020) USA 47.1%† (TV)
McNeill et al. (2019) Australian 23.8%† (App)
van den Heuvel et al. (2019) Canada 22.4%† (Mobile media devices)
Lin et al. (2020) China NA
Borajy et al. (2019) Saudi Arabia NA
Lan et al. (2020) China 73.9%†
Moon et al. (2019) South Korea 39.30%†
Nathanson and Beyens (2018) Netherlands NA
Average 48.34%† (Overuse)
26.83%* (Problematic use)

†The rate of digital overuse is reported based on WHO (2019) and American Academy of Pediatrics (2001) media use guidelines of less than an hour of screen time per day. *The rate of problematic use is reported based on the report of the article.