Adult Attitudes About School Smartphone Bans

JAMA Pediatr. 2026 Jan 5. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.5736. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Dimitri Christakis^{1

2}, Nusrat Jahan Lia³, Lauren Hale⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Washington, Seattle.
² Editor, JAMA Pediatrics.
³ Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁴ Program in Public Health, Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York.

PMID: 41490265
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.5736

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Plain language summary

This global cross-sectional study assesses adults’ attitudes about school bans on student smartphone use.