And it did not look at how children were using their screen time, be it to watch television, play videogames or use social media. How much screen time is ‘too much’? ‘Moral panic’ over gaming disorder listing The study, of 4, 500 US children, published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal , used questionnaires to estimate the child’s: physical activity sleep recreational screen time Children also completed a test, which assessed cognitive skills, including: language memory attention The study controlled for: household income parental and child education ethnicity pubertal development body mass index (BMI) traumatic brain injury It found that children who each day had less than two hours of recreational screen time, got nine to 11 hours of sleep, and did at least one hour of physical activity performed better than who did none of these. Less than two hours of screen time a day was the … Continue reading Screen use linked to children’s cognition