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	Awareness Among Parents Working in the Healthcare Sector on Screen Addiction and Its Impact on Children and Adolescents&#13;
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</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kondati</surname><given-names>Sathyanarayana</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>L.</surname><given-names>Nandhini</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Thiruneelan</surname><given-names>L.S.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Solomon</surname><given-names>Hilda</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Swaminathan</surname><given-names>Jayanthi</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A.</surname><given-names>Anitha Rani</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>5</day><month>10</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>9)</volume><issue/><fpage>9</fpage><lpage>16</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>&#13;
	Introduction: The digital life of our children begins at an early age as they are exposed to a variety of screens (mobile phones, TV screens, tablets and computers). It has become more important for parents to suggest appropriate screen time and type of media exposure for children in recent years. Aim: The present study aimed to understand the awareness of parents who are health care workers on their child’s screen timing and associated behavioral changes, post lockdown. Method: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among the health care workers, who are parents of child aged between 3 - 18 years at Apollo Hospitals, between December 2021 - Feb 2022. Results: A total of 105 responses were received from medical and non-medical sectors. In the study, 47.61% were fathers followed by mothers (44.76%) and guardians (7.61%). The majority of the children belong to the age group of 6 to 12 years (42.85%) and were secondary school level (29.52%). The majority of the children watch mobile phones, followed by television. The daily screen time for child was reported as 3 hours in weekdays and &gt; 4 hours on weekends. Among behavioral changes, age groups of 3-6 years and 12-18 years showed lack of concentration, whereas in 6-12 years age group personal hygiene was reduced. Further, there is a change in eating patterns (70%) and sleeping patterns (92%), and an increase in their monthly bills (42%) towards the mobiles/ screen apps due to increased screen time. On the other hand, digital technology increases the understanding of the concept easily and improves the learning outcome. Thus, parents feel that they need to find the right balance in the usage of technology (39.4%) for the prolonged use of digital technology. Conclusion: To conclude, it is fairly impossible to provide techno free zone to children in this digital world. Thus, parents have to focus and limit the screen usage time to reduce the ill effects, further parental screen addiction awareness and co- viewing avoid the behavioral problem.&#13;
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</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Screen addiction</kwd><kwd> Digital technology</kwd><kwd> Parents</kwd><kwd> health care workers</kwd><kwd> Awareness</kwd><kwd> Techno free</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
