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Thursday, 30 June 2016

Professor Stephen Houghton’s research paper titled “Virtually Impossible: limiting Australian children and adolescents daily screen based media use” has been recorded in the top 1% of over 5 million scholarly publications according to Altmetric.

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“Virtually Impossible” is a world first study into the amount of time Australian children and adolescents spend on all types of screens and specific screen activities and mental health.

Funded by the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation, the longitudinal study began in 2013 by Professor Stephen Houghton from the Faculty of Education and a research team of experts from The School of Population Health; The School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health; The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and the National Heart Foundation.

During the three year study, 2,620-3,050 children aged between 8 and 16 years from 34 Australian government and non-government primary and secondary schools, participated in six assessments via an online instrument.

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