Prayagraj: A study conducted by a research scholar of the anthropology department of Allahabad University has underscored the importance of parental monitoring and devising a policy to regulate the ownership of digital devices like TV, laptops and smartphones. The study has also recommended that the screen time should be reduced to less than two hours per day, especially during early childhood.
The study was published by Sage in the international journal, “Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society”.
The study, conducted by Madhvi Tripathi, a research scholar at AU’s department of Anthropology who has done PhD under assistant professor Shailendra Kumar Mishra, has underscored the importance of parental monitoring and devising a policy to regulate the ownership of digital devices.
“Given that Prayagraj holds the largest population in the state (Census 2011), a cross-sectional study was conducted on 400 children using the two-stage random sampling method. In the first stage, 10 municipal wards were randomly selected in the Sangam city. Each of these wards have a total population between 11,000 and 22,000. In the second stage, children were selected in proportion to their population from each selected ward to achieve a sample size,” said Tripathi.
Findings reveal that an overwhelming majority of households have television followed by digital cameras, laptops, tablets, kindle and video games.
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