Reactions to a Chief Medical Officer (CMO) report on the impact of screentime and social media use on young people. … read more
Reactions to the UK Science and Technology Committee report on the affect of social media and screen use on young … read more
Researchers publishing in JAMA Pediatrics argue for a directional association between screen time and child development, and recommend family media … read more
Research published in Nature Human Behaviour demonstrates that the association between digital technology use and adolescent well-being is negative but … read more
Screen time is now an intrinsic part of most people’s lives in the UK, but campaigns have raised the question … read more
Research published in EClinicalMedicine highlights potential issues with greater social media use in relation to young people’s mental health. Prof Peter Fonagy, Head … read more
Reactions to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health published guidance on screen time. Prof Stephen Scott, Director of … read more
Researchers, publishing in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, report that over two hours of recreational screen time a day was associated with poorer cognitive function in children. read more
Scientists explore the link between adult attachment and problematic Facebook use in new research published in BMC Psychology.
Although they’re an intrinsic part of modern life, a lot of concerns have been raised about the widespread use of screens, particularly among children and teenagers, with claims about their impact on mental health, behaviour, and neurodevelopment being made. read more
Publishing in International Journal of Obesity, researchers carried out a longitudinal study to examine the association between screen based media use in the bedroom and body fatness among children in the UK. read more
Publishing in Scientific Reports, researchers have looked at the amount of screen time use and sleeping patterns in toddlers. read more
A study published in Psychological Science reported that the relationships between digital-screen time and mental well-being are nonlinear and that moderate engagement in digital activities is not harmful. read more
Levels of physical activity and patterns of television viewing and their effect on a person’s cognition is the subject of a paper published in the JAMA Psychiatry, with the authors reporting that high levels of inactivity and low levels of television viewing were associated with poorer cognitive function. read more
Screen time (watching TV, playing computer games or browsing the internet) and sedentary behaviour have both been at the centre of recent controversy, causing particular concern amongst parents worried that their children are being harmed through long periods sitting and looking at a screen. Publishing in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, researchers have conducted a study to determine if looking at screens, compared to reading or doing homework, or being sedentary appears to have any impact on GCSE results. read more
Screen time (watching TV, playing computer games or browsing the internet) and sedentary behaviour have both been at the centre of recent controversy, causing particular concern amongst parents worried that their children are being harmed through long periods sitting and looking at a screen. Researchers have now conducted a study to determine if looking at screens, compared to reading or doing homework, or being sedentary appears to have any impact on GCSE results. read more
Low physical activity is a risk factor for a number of diseases, and researchers publishing in the BMJ Open have examined a possible association between activity and time spent in front of television or computer screens at weekends. The research team looked Norwegian adolescents and report that in boys, “screen time” was negatively associated with bone mineral density. read more
Two studies in JAMA Pediatrics investigated children’s use of electronic media; one reported associations between screen time and some measures of child emotional wellbeing, the other between maternal monitoring and body mass index (BMI) in children. read more
Five year-olds who watch TV for three or more hours a day have a very slightly increased risk of developing antisocial behaviours, indicates research published in Archives of Disease in Childhood. read more
Aric Sigman wrote in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, calling for curbs on children’s daily screen time and delaying the age at which they start “the world’s favourite pastime” to stave off the risk of serious health and developmental problems. read more
