The children’s “digital screen time” was based on answers to two questions about the weekday habits of children aged between six months and 17 years: how much time they spent on computers, mobile phones, handheld video games and other electronic devices how much time they spent in front of a TV watching programmes and other content as well as playing video games The findings indicate that the tech-abstaining teenagers slept only slightly longer than their counterparts who had spent much of their day in front of a screen. For example, teenagers who had not been in front of a screen for any part of the day got a total of eight hours and 51 minutes of sleep. Those who had spent eight hours of their day glued to a screen got eight hours and 21 minutes of slumber. ‘Mini case of jet lag’ The study, published in the Journal of … Continue reading ‘Screens have little effect on sleep’