The Challenges of Defining and Studying “Digital Addiction” in Children

In this Viewpoint,JAMA Pediatrics Editor Dimitri Christakis discusses the the conceptual and methodological challenges of studying digital media use by children and adolescents, and calls on the leadership of device and social media companies to collaborate with child health researchers, sharing data as the companies already do with advertisers, to help mediate digital media use in the best interest of children.
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research