A new study has found psychosocial difficulties such as depression, anxiety, attention deficit and peer relationship difficulties among the teens in Bangladesh who indulge more in screen-based activities and stay away from physical activities.
Researchers say this finding has significant public health implications for developing countries such as Bangladesh, which are now demonstrating increasing rates of recreational screen use and inactivity as access to technology becomes easier.
The research published in the International Health, an official journal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Oxford University Press, is said to be the first such study that examined the “combined effects of physical activity and screen time on the psychosocial difficulties of adolescents in Bangladesh”.
Some 671 students aged between 13 years and 16 years of eight schools in Bangladesh, both English and Bangla mediums, have responded to the study.
Earlier, a research by the same author Prof Asad Khan of University of Queensland’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Science found that teenagers in Bangladesh who did less than one hour of moderate exercise, and had more than two hours of screen time per day, were twice as likely to report depressive symptoms than those who exercised for an hour a day.
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