Children who use electronic devices at bedtime have more than double the risk of not getting enough sleep during the night compared to those who don’t use them.
Further, a new review of 20 existing observational studies involving 125,198 children shows that sleep quality and daytime sleepiness were affected in a similar way.
“Our study is the first to consolidate results across existing research and provides further proof of the detrimental effect of media devices on both sleep duration and quality,” said Ben Carter of the Cardiff University School of Medicine.
Sleep is an often undervalued but important part of children's development
, professor, Cardiff University School of Medicine
