Screen time for children and adolescents during the COVID 19: Is your kid investing more energy gazing at a screen than playing?

Abstract

A developing assortment of writing concerns the rising patterns of screen time and its related health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The utilization of computerized screens, including TV, PCs, cell phones, and keen gadgets, can be related to a broad scope of well-being results. The ascent in youngsters' screen time during the pandemic has set off calls for more noteworthy intuitiveness and outside exercise to support learning and guard against changing degrees of screen time, which may have significant ramifications on their well-being and prosperity. The accessible proof proposes that screen time is related to corpulence, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, nearsightedness, sadness, rest issues, and numerous other noncommunicable infections. Exploration amalgamations show that incremental utilization of screen-based media may bring about unfriendly physical and emotional well-being ramifications, inactive ways of life, and other undesirable practices that will probably increment during isolation separation. It is essential to recognize this forthcoming general well-being emergency and embrace alleviation methodologies to forestall the well-being perils related to expanded screen time. This narrative review's motivation is to give fundamental experiences important to fortify the information base to make educated arrangements, rules, and remedies for decreasing the unfavorable well-being effects of screen time. © 2021 Karadeniz Technical University. All rights reserved.