“Twenty-five percent of school-age teenagers in the United States spend a full quarter of their school day on their phone,” Dimitri Christakis, co-author and professor at UW’s School of Medicine, said ...

The Jake and Spike Show, weekdays from 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. A study by the University of Washington (UW) revealed that children across America are using their phones in school at alarming rates, with 25% ...

U.S. adolescents spend more than one hour per day on smartphones during school hours, with social media accounting for the largest share of use, according to research published in JAMA. The findings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The University of Washington released a study on smartphone and social media use in teens. The study was published in the Journal ...

Turns out that school climate makes an enormous difference. That is, when students feel connected to their peers and teachers in real life, safe from bullying or harassment (including online), they ...

While most addictive substances such as alcohol can be easily quantified, digital content cannot, making it difficult to define and stymie “digital addiction” in children, according to a JAMA op-ed ...

We’ve been told over and over TV will rot our brains and we shouldn’t let kids under 2-years-old even look at it, and now a new study shows fast paced cartoons negatively affect preschool-aged ...

Feb 19 (Reuters) - Upping the educational value of what young children watch on television and choosing to avoid violence-prone programming may help improve their behavior, according to a U.S. study ...

About The Article: This Viewpoint proposes an analogous taxonomy for digital media use that identifies patterns of use, irrespective of content, that could be problematic but, at a minimum, should be ...

In the study, researchers looked at the smartphone habits of teens between the ages of 13 to 18.