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Re:Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones fo... by AbrahamParangi on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:16AM (#36192187)
Are you aware that there is a dose-response relationship observable between adolescent smartphone and social media usage and mental health issues?
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Re:Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones fo... by barry-cotter on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:19AM (#36192217)
If you’re going to make a claim that strong please provide evidence.
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Re:Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones fo... by numlock86 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:31AM (#36192288)
He probably read it on social media.
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Re:Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones fo... by tomjen3 on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:59AM (#36198257)
Not OP.

Here is evidence for screen time being dose dependent after more than 1 hour, but it is old so none of the kids in that study had grown up with smartphones https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283687526_Dose-resp...

This is a summary article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012622/ you will find the dose dependt point is the first paragraph under the heading "Key Points".

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