The amount of time the vast majority of youth are spending on the internet far exceeds the daily recommended “screen time,” according to a new federal report.
The vast majority (89 to 96 percent) of youth in grades 6 to 10 exceed the recommended daily screen time of two hours, according to a report published by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on July 23, which was first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The PHAC report provided findings from the 2022 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study, which indicated that 42 percent of boys and 54 percent of girls in grades 6 to 8 reported having online contact with close friend(s) “almost all the time throughout the day.” Meanwhile, 57 percent of boys and 73 percent of girls in grades 9 and 10 reported the same….