Excess ‘Facebooking’ can make your kid mentally sick
Posted: 07/24/2015 07:12 PM IST
Excess use of social media can lead to poor mental health among kids, according to a study from Ottawa Public Health in Canada.
The researchers Hugues Sampasa-Kanyinga, MD and Rosamund Lewis, MD, Ottawa Public Health (Ottawa, Canada) analysed data on students in grades 7-12 from the Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey. About 25 percent of students reported using social networking sites for more than 2 hours daily.
"The findings send an important message to parents and suggest an opportunity to increase mental health support service offerings on these websites," the authors noted.
"Since teenagers are on the sites, it is the perfect place for public health and service providers to reach out and connect with this vulnerable population and provide health promotion systems and supports," Wiederhold added.
Many teenagers love to spend more time on social media sites but because of its side effects, experts advise parents not to allow their kids for more than 2 hours a day. The paper appeared in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behaviour, and Social Networking.
By Lizitha
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