Children spend a startling number of hours on their phones during school, the study reveals

As we talk about stopping phones in schools, a new study found that the average teenager spends a quarter of their school day moving.

Research led by the Seattle Children’s Research Institute found that adolescents-ages 13-18 years old passed on average 1½ hours for 6 hours per school day on smartphones.

Public health and pediatrician scientists tried to understand not only the overall use of the adolescence screen, but especially the duration and content of that use – especially during the school.

“As a public health researcher and mother of two high schools, I am worried that many children are missing both in learning and social opportunities during school day watching their phones,” said senior author Lauren Hale in a statement.

“School classes are precious.”

A national sample of approximately 300 participants participated in a smartphone-based 15-minute study by installing the reality app to track how people used their phones. After analyzing data and narrowing of the sample only for those who collected smartphone data during two or more school days a week, they were left with a sample of 117 adolescents.

Within this smaller sample, although teens on average 1½ hours of using smartphone during the school, researchers learned that over 25% spent more than two hours on their classroom phones.

In addition to the overall browsing online, teens used their phones for text messages, Instagram, video broadcasting, audio and email mostly.

The results of the study were published Monday on a Pediatric Research letter in Jama, “Use of adolescence smartphones during school hours”.

Researchers believe that more sample -sized research should be done that will reflect a wider fragment of society.

“Unfortunately, many of the existing research on the use of digital media relies on self -reported data. In this study, we were able to objectively evaluate the use of smartphones, enabling a much more granular meaning of time and the content of the use of smartphones, ”said Hale, a professor in the Public Health Program and the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine in Renaissance Medicine at Stony Brook University.

“Parents and adolescents can benefit from access to phones for communication and learning purposes during the school,” the authors concluded. “However, the application use data from this study suggest that most of the use of school day’s smartphones seem unstable with that purpose. Analyzes show high levels of social media use during school.”

The study comes in the midst of a recent push to stop smartphones in schools. New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently released a report titled “More Learned, Less Movement” to shed light on Smartphone during School Day and create classroom environments “without distraction” .

A proposed prohibition suggested by Hochul would begin early next school year and would require public school students and charter to be free from any “web -activated” Bell to Bell device.