A research result has been announced that children who spend more time watching videos on mobile phones or TV have lower growth and development scores, and to compensate for this, they need outdoor activities of 30 minutes or more a day.
On the 25th, American medical media medscape reported an article like this.
As mobile phones and TVs have become commonplace, more and more children are absorbed in watching monitors. As outdoor activities have decreased due to COVID-19, this phenomenon has intensified. Parents are worried that monitors will adversely affect their children’s growth and development, but they can’t ban them, so they get anxious.
In fact, it was found that focusing on the monitor for a long time at a young age does not have a very good effect on the growth and development of children. According to a study recently published in JAMA Pediatrics Online, an American journal of pediatrics, the developmental stages of 4-year-old children who watched a mobile phone or TV for more than 1 hour from the age of 2 were found to have better communication skills than their peers who spent less than 1 hour on a monitor. and development skills in daily life were low. Daily living development skills are evaluated according to how well they perform movements such as eating, dressing, and going to the toilet.
According to a paper published on the 23rd by Dr. Kenji Tsuchiya’s team at the Center for Child Psychological Development, School of Medicine, Hamamatsu University, Japan, in a sample of this regional cohort study, children born between December 2007 and March 2012 were aged 18 months to 4 years. This was confirmed as a result of tracking the developmental stages of children who use the monitor for less than 1 hour a day and those who use the monitor for more than 1 hour among children.
The team also identified a way to offset these results. When children who used the monitor for more than an hour were allowed to play outdoors for more than 30 minutes a day, five or more days a week, their daily life scores were alleviated by 18%.
The research team explained that outdoor play that moves the body stimulates nerve development and makes daily actions more sophisticated.
However, increasing outdoor play did not improve communication scores.
Previously, in a situation where another study showed that infants’ use of monitors increased by 58% following the outbreak of COVID-19, the research team was concerned that a potential crisis might occur in children’s neurodevelopment.
Experts emphasized that children’s monitor usage time should be reduced to less than 1 hour, and children should be allowed to play games that can move their bodies indoors and outdoors as much as the monitor activity time. In addition, he asked for the habit of frequent conversation to improve children’s communication skills.