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Screen Time and Its Health Consequences in Children and Adolescents
Nowadays, children and adolescents are exposed to digital media (DM) from an early age. Therefore, specific guidelines have been published by the World Health Organization, whose aim is to limit daily screen time (ST) viewing. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a rise in DM use, and consequently...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37892328 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10101665 |
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description | Nowadays, children and adolescents are exposed to digital media (DM) from an early age. Therefore, specific guidelines have been published by the World Health Organization, whose aim is to limit daily screen time (ST) viewing. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a rise in DM use, and consequently ST viewing, was observed. More and more aspects of modern life are thought to be affected by excessive ST viewing. Accordingly, the aim of this review is to document the health effects of excessive ST viewing on children and adolescents. A narrative review was performed in searchable databases. In total, 43 original articles were considered. Excessive ST viewing was correlated with increased risk for obesity and other cardiometabolic risk factors, mental health, unhealthy dietary habits and eating disorders, and problems in development and child–parent relationships. Sleep, physical activity, eyesight, headaches, and the musculoskeletal system were negatively affected as well. However, the effect of ST was weighted by the type of media used and the way types of media were used. Other confounding factors were reported. There is evidence to suggest a negative correlation between excessive ST and youth health exists. Nevertheless, more research is needed if this correlation is to be established. |
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spelling | pubmed-106050672023-10-28 Screen Time and Its Health Consequences in Children and Adolescents Priftis, Nikos Panagiotakos, Demosthenes Children (Basel) Review Nowadays, children and adolescents are exposed to digital media (DM) from an early age. Therefore, specific guidelines have been published by the World Health Organization, whose aim is to limit daily screen time (ST) viewing. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a rise in DM use, and consequently ST viewing, was observed. More and more aspects of modern life are thought to be affected by excessive ST viewing. Accordingly, the aim of this review is to document the health effects of excessive ST viewing on children and adolescents. A narrative review was performed in searchable databases. In total, 43 original articles were considered. Excessive ST viewing was correlated with increased risk for obesity and other cardiometabolic risk factors, mental health, unhealthy dietary habits and eating disorders, and problems in development and child–parent relationships. Sleep, physical activity, eyesight, headaches, and the musculoskeletal system were negatively affected as well. However, the effect of ST was weighted by the type of media used and the way types of media were used. Other confounding factors were reported. There is evidence to suggest a negative correlation between excessive ST and youth health exists. Nevertheless, more research is needed if this correlation is to be established. MDPI 2023-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10605067/ /pubmed/37892328 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10101665 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Priftis, Nikos Panagiotakos, Demosthenes Screen Time and Its Health Consequences in Children and Adolescents |
title | Screen Time and Its Health Consequences in Children and Adolescents |
title_full | Screen Time and Its Health Consequences in Children and Adolescents |
title_fullStr | Screen Time and Its Health Consequences in Children and Adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | Screen Time and Its Health Consequences in Children and Adolescents |
title_short | Screen Time and Its Health Consequences in Children and Adolescents |
title_sort | screen time and its health consequences in children and adolescents |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37892328 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10101665 |
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