Device Overuse, Screen Time Top Parental Concerns About Children’s Health, Poll Data Reveal

Healio (8/21, Weldon) reports, “Device overuse and screen time topped a poll of parental concerns about children’s health, followed by concerns about internet safety and mental health, according to results released” Aug. 21 in the “annual University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health.” The pool, which “received 2,099 responses…from parents with at least one child,” rated parents’ top “five concerns” to be “overuse of devices or screen time (67%), social media (66%), internet safety (62%) depression and suicide (57%) and bullying (53%).”

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— “Poll: Screen time tops parents’ concerns about children’s health,”Rose Weldon, Healio , August 21, 2023

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