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Screens have become difficult to separate from children’s daily lives, including at school, where the same technology that can support learning can also become a distraction.
University life can bring freedom, but it can also be stressful. Students may be living away from home for the first time while handling deadlines, new routines, and changes in their usual support ...
Muscat: Excessive social media use among young adults in Oman is associated with a range of mental, social and physical health concerns, including ...
Is your screen time helping or hurting your happiness? A psychologist explains 3 research-backed habits for finding your healthy middle ground online.
A focus on how we engage with social media—not just how long we spend on it—is key to analyzing the impact on mental health, a new study warns.
The findings come from the 2024–25 COMPASS survey at eight secondary schools in the health unit’s region. Fifty-seven per cent of students at participating schools completed the survey. The results ...
An umbrella review of 121 systematic reviews covering over nine million children and adolescents finds that the health effects of digital media depend heavily on age, content, context and patterns of ...
A focus on how we engage with social media – not just how long we spend on it - is key to analysing the impact on mental health, a new study ...
A major review reveals that young individuals using screens excessively are at higher risk for mental health issues, self-harm, and sleep problems.
A new Australian study has linked more frequent exposure to anti-trans stigma with a statistically higher prevalence of anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
The physical and mental well-being of millions of kids around the world may be at risk because of excess screen time, according to global data analyzed for a new series of research papers published ...
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is asking for support for Kenan's Law after the death of partner Ken Urker.
Before he died following a suspected overdose, Ken Urker ‘experienced an enormous amount of public scrutiny,’ Blanchard wrote in the new petition.
“Public figures are still human beings, and fame should never erase someone’s humanity,” she wrote ...
The researchers said the effects linked to high screen exposure were similar in size to those associated with other factors known to affect children’s.
Six months ago, endless doomscrolling and constant negativity took a heavy toll on my mental health. Deactivating my accounts triggered intense withdrawal, but stepping away finally allowed me to ...
The effect of high screen time on children is as significant as parental behaviour and premature birth, if not greater, a global study has found ...
Steve Scaffidi begins a new Scaffidiology series examining the impact of social media on our culture, mental health and everyday lives. He is joined by ...
The cycle of doomscrolling behaviour. Negative information increases worry, which encourages repeated checking and further exposure to distressing content, creating a continuous loop that may affect ...
The alarm goes off and you roll over to pick up your phone. Before you've even got out of bed, you're scrolling through social media and checking messages. Your whole day unfolds the same way. You ...
A global study of more than 2.8 million children links higher screen exposure with lower academic achievement, poorer language development and emotional problems.
How much should we let children use smartphones?What about YouTube? Games? Social media?A fairly major paper has been published on this issue.On September 28, 2026, JAMA Pediatrics publishedScreen Use ...
A comprehensive global study has revealed that excessive screen time may have an impact on children comparable to significant factors such as parental ...
Parents have been told for years that children shouldn't spend too much time staring at screens.One of the largest studies yet suggests those warnings aren't entirely misplaced although the answer isn ...
For a while, I spent the majority of my free time using screens. I decided that it was time to reduce my screen time, and this is why and how I did.
A huge review of 2.8 million children appears to have established a link between too much screen time and a number of key developmental benchmarks ...
Increased screen time can have a wide-ranging impact on a young person's wellbeing, according to one of the largest studies ever conducted on the subject.
Effect of elevated screen exposure could be as significant as parental behaviour and premature birth, report says ...
A mother told me recently that her seven-year-old had started narrating cartoons to himself when the tablet wasn’t in front of him, reciting lines from a show, alone, in the voice of a character. At ...
From exclusion in WhatsApp groups and gaming harassment to fake accounts and manipulated images, cyberbullying can take many forms. This week in The Safe Side, experts say the first line of defence is ...
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