About the benefits of mobile phones
Lovers of chatting on a cell phone have a beneficial effect on the psychomotor skills of their children
A study by Norwegian scientists on a large sample again demonstrated that the use of mobile phones during pregnancy does not harm either the mother or her child. And it revealed a curious connection between the mother's sociability and the development of her offspring.
It is widely believed that electromagnetic radiation is harmful to human health. Numerous studies refute this opinion. However, to date, the impact of the use of a mobile phone by a pregnant woman on the subsequent development of her child has not been sufficiently investigated. To do this, Norwegian scientists conducted a study aimed at finding out the relationship between the psychomotor development of children aged three to five years and the use of mobile phones by their mothers during pregnancy.
A total of 45,389 women with three-year-old children and 17,310 women with five-year-old children were used for the study. All respondents were divided into four groups: those who did not use mobile phones at all, and those who used them with varying degrees of intensity – low, medium and high. The surveys were conducted in 1999-2008 . The women were asked to fill out a questionnaire that allowed them to assess the development of their children's speech and motor skills (for example, they were asked to assess the complexity of the child's sentences and the grammar he uses). In addition, the women themselves were asked to take an extroversion test. The result roughly coincided with the "telephone activity" of women: more extroverted women mostly used the phone more often than introverts.
Approximately 23% of all three-year-olds were identified as having insufficient speech complexity. At the same time, however, the risk of being in this group in the children of those mothers who used mobile communication was 27% lower. And it decreased along with how actively their mothers communicated on their cell phone. For children of those who used the phone a little, this risk was lower by 13%, "average" – by 22%, and for the most active – by 29%. Thus, the children of those mothers who talked a lot and often on a mobile phone were in the least risk group.
The same pattern was observed in the case of motor skills: the more active a mobile phone user was a mother during pregnancy, the less likely her child could have any problems. The same trend, both in the case of speech and motor skills, was observed for children of five years of age.
Scientists have suggested that the use of a mobile phone is not the cause of accelerated speech development, but a concomitant factor: mothers who talk a lot on the phone (and are mostly more extroverted) also talk and interact with their child a lot, and this stimulates the development of his psychomotor abilities.
Scientists admit that, as in any study of this kind, the results could be influenced by distorting factors, such as the age of parents, the degree of income, etc. Nevertheless, the results suggest that the electromagnetic radiation of a mobile phone does not have any negative impact on the further psychomotor development of the unborn child, and therefore extroverted mothers have absolutely nothing to worry about.
The study was published in the journal BMC Public Health.
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07.09.2017