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S214 25th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 41S (2017) S170–S237
e-poster walk: Child and adolescent
psychiatry–Part 3
EW0317
An embodied approach to understand
behavioural characteristics in subjects
with autism spectrum disorders
M. Kékes Szabó
University of Szeged, Department of Applied Pedagogy and
Psychology, Szeged, Hungary
There are three main areas of impairment in autism: social interac-
tion, communication and repetitive-stereotyped behaviors. While
over a long time orthodox cognitive psychology tried to explain the
background of these symptoms, nowadays embodiment theories
also seem to be useful tools to grasp the real nature of the dis-
ease and get a coherent picture about it. The significance of body
states, the perceiver’s experiences, dynamic interaction between
the organism and its environment, and the emergent nature of
the connected processes have increased. This study focused on the
autistic children’s cognitive development and aimed to explore sev-
eral aspects of it. Accordingly, the sensory-perceptual processes
and the participating children’s object use were investigated. The
main research methods were questionnaires that were filled in
by the parents, participant observation via object play and eye-
movement analysis during static and dynamic stimuli. The results
confirmed different behavioral patterns by children with autism.
Thus, for example, hyper-/hyposensitivity, a reduced rate of cre-
ative/pretend activities and a lower level of the preference of social
effects could be explored in the autistic group more often than it
was found in the case of individuals with typical development. In
this way, more aspects of the disease could be clearly interpreted
using an embodied approach to the behavioural characteristics,
although further studies are required to explore these phenomena
in a wider range.
Disclosure of interest The author has not supplied his/her decla-
ration of competing interest.
EW0318
The effects of high exposure to
smartphone from ages 3 to 5 years on
children’s behaviors
S.J. Kim ∗, S.M. Cho , K.Y. Lim
Ajou university hospital, Psychiatry, Suwon, Republic of Korea
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction Smartphones are becoming widely popular and the
number of users is significantly increasing, reaching over 65% in
South Korea in 2013 and the children begin to use a smartphone at
earlier age. Earlier and higher exposure of multimedia is known to
have negative effects on children’s physical and mental status.
Objectives The aim of the present study was to examine young
children’s exposure to smartphone and identify the effects of high
exposure of smartphone on children’s behaviors among Korean
children from ages 3–5 years.
Methods In 2014–2015, the parents of 400 children aged
3–5 years (207 boys and 193 girls) were surveyed using a
questionnaire on the use of smartphone, children’s behaviors,
temperaments, social and language development at 3 community-
based children’s mental health centers.
Results Many children used televisions (95.5%), computers
(37.3%) or tablet PC (36.2%), and smartphones (84.6%). Most (74.2%)
started using mobile medias before age 2. Parents gave children
devices like smartphones to keep them calm (60.8%), when being
busy doing something (52.2%), and at playtime (34.3%). The chil-
dren’s age at first smartphone use and the frequency were not
associatedwith children’s behaviors and temperaments. Higher use
group (> 2 h/d) show more somatic symptoms (OR 8.97, P < .001),
more attention problem(OR 4.43, P < .001), more aggressive symp-
toms (OR 1.30, P < .001) and more withdrawal symptoms(OR 1.22,
P < .001) than lower use group.
Conclusions Young children in Korean urban communities had
almost universal exposure to mobile devices, especially smart-
phone. Early and severe exposure of smartphone by young children
aged 3–5 years is highly associated with children’s behaviour prob-
lems like both internalising and externalising problems.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
EW0319
Handedness in children with autism
spectrum disorders
L. Kobylinska∗, C.G. Anghel , I. Mihailescu , F. Rad , I. Dobrescu
“Prof. Dr. Al. Obregia” Clinical Psychiatry Hospital, Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, Bucharest, Romania
∗ Corresponding author.
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have a less defini-
tive hand preference for certain actions as opposed to neurotypical
children. Moreover, left-handedness in children with ASD has been
associated with more echolalia. The objective was to conduct a
screening of potential risk and associated features for autism spec-
trum disorders, among which the hand preference of the child. The
current aim is to compare the perceived handedness of children
with autism spectrum disorders with that of children with other
psychiatric pathologies.
Methods Eight hundred and forty-two parents completed our
risk and associated features screening questionnaire. Out of these,
494 answered the question regarding handedness (209 had chil-
dren diagnosed with ASD). This asked the parents to state how they
perceived their child’s handedness. An ADOS assessment has been
conducted for 170 of the children whose parents were included in
the study, based on clinical relevance for the case. The data were
analysed using Excel and SPSS 22.0. For the comparisons, Chi2 and
the Kruskal–Wallis test were used.
Results Children with ASD had more left-handedness
( 2(2) = 12.54, P= 0.002). There were no differences between
boys and girls in terms of perceived handedness in any of the
groups. There were no differences in the ADOS scores according to
the perceived hand laterality ( 2 (2) = 0.58, P = 0.74).
Conclusion Rightward-asymmetry in regions of corpus callosum
has been reported to correlate with symptoms severity in ASD.
The finding of different perceived handedness in children with
ASD versus children with other psychiatric pathologies is useful for
designing appropriate, individualized training programs for motor
therapy.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
EW0320
Prevention of conduct disorders at the
community level
J. Kosti´c ∗, M. Stankovi´c , L. Milosavljevi´c
Health centar-Nis, Department for Child and adolescent psychiatry,
Nis, Serbia
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction Epidemiological data indicate that 30% to 50% of
young people contact the child psychiatrist for behavioral disor-
ders problems. Protective factors research that reduce the risk of
conduct disorders are just as important as the research of risk fac-