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‘In J&K, 65% parents don’t prefer online apps for education’

LCT Desk by LCT Desk
June 2, 2022
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Srinagar, Jun 1: The survey conducted by GMC Srinagar has found that 65 percent parents in Jammu and Kashmir don’t prefer online applications for education of their children, while 20 percent parents do.
“An online survey was conducted to study the screen time in children during COVID-19. The online Google Forms were shared through various social media sites and parents were asked to fill out the forms. A total of 307 responses were received and analysed,” the survey document states.
“The age of the children ranged from 0 to 18 years. The maximum number of children belonged to the age group of 6-10 years (37.5%), followed by age group of 10-18 years (31.6%), followed by 0-5 years (18.3%). The use of devices or any other electronic gadgets increased with increasing age group and thus increasing the screen-time. The parents also allow the children to use mobile phones or other devices to keep them occupied and calm when they are doing household chores or shopping. With an increase in age, the increase of screen time can be due to lesser parental control over children as they grow up and children become more independent and take over major decision-making in their life,” the survey says.
“Approximately 56.1% of the children were males and 43.9% were females. The majority of the children used phones (68.7%), followed by tablets (11.4%), laptop (9.4%), television (8.5%), desktop (1.3%), and others (0.7%),” it said.
“Approximately 45% of children in the study had personal phones/devices and 54.3% of children did not possess a personal phone/device, whereas 0.7% of children may/ may not have personal devices/phones. The possession of a personal phone or device has a positive association with the increased screen-time among children. This can be due to no continuous watch over these children by their parents, easy access to their phones at any part of the day and night, no one to limit or restrict them from using their own phones. The children with personal devices or phones were more skillful and had the liberty to use the phone as per their convenience or time and preference and even during the odd hours at night or before going to bed, whereas the phone use limited if one has to ask for the phone/ device from an elder one or either of the parents,” it says.
“So far, 62.9% children reported to be addicted/glued to the devices/phones, whereas 25.4% of children were reported not to be glued/addicted and 11.7% were not sure about the addiction. The more the child was glued/ addicted to the devices/phones, the more the screen time of the children. The children once addicted to the use of these devices or phones would lead to more use of these and thus the increased screen-time. Use of electronic media acts like a digital drug for our brain and this releases dopamine in our brain which have a negative effect on impulse control,” it adds.
“The study concludes that the increased screen-time has ill effects both on the physical as well as mental health of the children. The present scenario in wake of COVID-19 has brought to the forefront the need to revisit the concept of screen time from a health perspective. This is important given the exclusive reliance on time spent looking at the screen as a measure to ensure healthy use of the Internet and Internet-enabled devices,” the survey says.

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