Excessive use of mobile phone and computer fraught with depression and insomnia
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Excessively active use of a mobile phone and a computer can adversely affect the mental health of young people, triggering sleep disorders, depression and an increased level of stress. To such a conclusion came the researcher of the Salgen Academy in Gothenburg Sarah Tome.
She builds her conclusions on the results of studies, in which 4100 people, as well as data from a sample survey of 32 inveterate users of information and communication technologies took part in the questionnaire. Observations of the participants of the study were conducted for 1 year.
In her own work Sarah Thome sums up, for example, that excessive use of mobile communication leads to sleep pathologies in young men, and, among other things, the formation of depressive disorders in both sexes. Inseparability with the computer increases the chance of difficulties with sleep, stress and depression in girls, while the strong sex in this case risks only a normal sleep.
"There is a connection between the systematic sitting in front of the computer late at night and the problem sleeping and depressive episodes of both guys and women," Sarah Tome points out.
One of the main conclusions drawn from the study is that health authorities should inform young people about the likely negative side effects of advanced technologies. In this case, "breaks in their application, time for recovery after active work, establishing limits of own availability" are particularly desirable.
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