New Delhi: The National Commission for the APEX Child Rights Agency for Children’s Rights Protection (NCPCR) in a study revealed that 59.2 percent of children use their smartphones for instant messaging applications and only 10.1 percent of children like to use smartphones for learning Online and education.
“About 59.2 percent of children use their smartphone / internet devices to ‘chat’ (using WhatsApp / Facebook / Instagram / Snapchat).
While only 10.1 percent of children like to use smartphones for learning and online education,” Read Online study.
Safe! You have succeeded in throwing your votelogin to see the results as an effect (physical, behavior and psycho-social) using cellphones and other devices with internet accessibility by children, research says that 30.2 percent of children from all age groups have their smartphones alone.
The report stated, “it is also interesting to note that 30.2 percent of children from all age groups (8 to 18 years) already have their own smartphone and use the same for all purposes.”
Strangely, 37.8 percent of 10-year-old children have a Facebook account, and 24.3 percent of the same age group has an Instagram account.
The trend line of the children’s percentage using their own smartphone has shown a steep increase from the age of 13 years and so on.
However, namely children who use laptops / tablets to access the internet proven to be stable at all ages.
“This can lead us to the deduction that parents / guardians are more willing to provide smartphones to their children since the age of 12-13 years and so on with laptops or tablets,” research records.
The total number of responses collected is 5,811 participants, consisting of 3,491 1.534 school children, and 786 teachers from 60 schools in six states in the country.
It is a national study of all regions (east, west, north, north, and northeastern region) with 15 selected locations throughout, three regions, 1,000 respondents per region, and stakeholders, and teachers.
The age distribution among all the children who participated in this study also varied with the average age of children participants to 14.05 years, the median was 14 years old.
This study revealed that there was a direct relationship between ages and having a social media account.
“Use of cellphones before going to bed leads to adverse impacts on children such as sleep disorders, difficulty sleeping, anxiety, and fatigue, etc.,” it shows.
While the study revealed that 72.70 percent of teachers did not have previous experience using smartphones, around 54.1 percent believed that the use of smartphones in class was “very disturbing or rather annoying”.
Experts who work for early detection and prevention of internet addiction at the AIIMS behavior addiction clinic indicate that parental supervision of their children is very important.
“Parents must introduce other life skills to children to ensure a reduction in screen time,” research.