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Digital multitasking can be detrimental to a child's mental health, study warns
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Children face a deluge of electronic information from traditional television and computers to tablets, smartphones and video games, but prior studies examining the impact of electronic media on children and adults have yield mixed results. The team of researchers from the University of Luxembourg and Universite de Genève studied 118 Swiss boys and girls, ranging from age eight to 12, asking them to fill out surveys with questions crafted to examine their electronic media use as well as their attention spans, sleep, grades, and mental health, according to the report. The questionnaires were also given to the children's teachers and parents, but focused more their perception of how they felt the children's electronic use impacted their mental health, the study noted.