Identifying Factors Influencing Attention in Adolescents with a Co-Created Questionnaire : A Citizen Science Approach with Secondary Students in Barcelona, Spain
Gignac, Florence (Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal))
Solé Martín, Caterina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Didàctica de les Ciències Socials)
Barrera-Gómez, José (Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal))
Persavento, Maria Cecilia (Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal))
Tena Gallego, Èlia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Didàctica de la Matemàtica i de les Ciències Experimentals)
López-Vicente, Mónica (Erasmus University Medical Centre-Sophia Children's Hospital. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology)
Júlvez, Jordi (Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili)
Sunyer, Jordi (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública)
Couso, Digna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Didàctica de la Matemàtica i de les Ciències Experimentals)
Basagaña, X (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Department of Experimental and Health Sciences
CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública

Data:	2021
Resum:	Studies on factors that can influence attention in healthy adolescents are recent and focus on recurrent topics. Students' contribution to public health research often revolves around collecting data but rarely around creating data collection instruments. The ATENC!Ó project reunited secondary students and scientists to create a questionnaire including factors that students thought could affect their attention. We conducted a cross-sectional study to assess whether the factors included in this questionnaire had an effect on attention in adolescents. A total of 1667 students (13-16 years old) from 28 schools in Barcelona performed a validated attention test and answered the questionnaire. The response speed consistency (attentiveness), expressed as hit reaction time standard error (HRT-SE, in ms), was used as the primary outcome. Analyses were conducted using conditional linear regression with school as strata, adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics and further stratified by gender and maternal social class. Some factors showed a negative influence on attention, including taking medication and not reading regularly. We found a significant 14. 3% (95% confidence interval: 3. 4%, 25. 3%) higher median of HRT-SE (increase inattentiveness) among students who reported not having a good relationship with classmates. Students' input into research is relevant for advancing the knowledge production in public health.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Adolescents ; Attention ; Citizen science ; Secondary education ; Questionnaire design ; Public health
Publicat a:	International journal of environmental research and public health, Vol. 18 (august 2021) , ISSN 1660-4601

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18158221
PMID: 34360520

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