Digital Parental Awareness and Somatic Symptoms as Factors in Problematic Media Use Among Children with ADHD

This study examined how ADHD severity, parental digital awareness, and psychiatric symptoms influence problematic media use in 95 children with ADHD versus 90 controls, finding that ADHD group used significantly more screen time (183 vs 117 minutes daily) with higher problematic use scores. Key risk factors included ADHD severity, somatic complaints, maternal negative media modeling, and inadequate parental media monitoring, together explaining 52% of variance in problematic media use.