Friday, 19 April 2024, 07:41:21 pm

Screen time has minimal effect on mental health of teens: Report
January 23, 2019

File Photo

Where excessive screen time was linked to negative mental health in children, a new study finds that digital technology use has very minimal effect on mental health of teens.

After tracking data from over 350,000 subjects in the UK and US, researchers from University of Oxford have concluded that excessive screen time usage accounts for less than half a percent of a young person’s poor mental health.

Everything from wearing glasses to not getting enough sleep has greater negative mental health percentage as compared to digital screen use. The study made use of a method called Specification Curve Analysis (SCA) to dig through the data and find the results, as per New Atlas.