Disruption of daily routines, limited mobility and social constraints have considerably increased engagement in sedentary activities especially screen time (ST). Around 1.5 billion children (aged 5–12 year) and youths (aged 13–17 year) were transitioned into virtual learning. Countries around the globe announced complete lockdown which included school closures for the most part of the year 2020 and extended partially into the following years. To limit the spread of the virus, stringent preventative measures were imposed worldwide. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted billions of children’s and adolescents’ lives in an unprecedented manner. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting information files.įunding: The publication of this article was funded by Qatar National Library. Received: SeptemAccepted: MaPublished: March 21, 2022Ĭopyright: © 2022 Musa et al. PLoS ONE 17(3):Įditor: Zulkarnain Jaafar, Universiti Malaya, MALAYSIA Citation: Musa S, Elyamani R, Dergaa I (2022) COVID-19 and screen-based sedentary behaviour: Systematic review of digital screen time and metabolic syndrome in adolescents.

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