Cited by 622Child Development and Digital TechnologyImpact of Technology on AdolescentsEducational Methods and Impacts

Media Use in School-Aged Children and Adolescents

COUNCIL ON COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA, Hill, David, Ameenuddin, Nusheen, Chassiakos, Yolanda (Linda) Reid, Cross, Corinn, Radesky, Jenny, Hutchinson, Jeffrey, Levine, Alanna +5 more·2016·Pediatrics

Abstract

This Policy Statement was revised. See https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2025-075320.: This policy statement focuses on children and adolescents 5 through 18 years of age. Research suggests both benefits and risks of media use for the health of children and teenagers. Benefits include exposure to new ideas and knowledge acquisition, increased opportunities for social contact and support, and new opportunities to access health-promotion messages and information. Risks include negative health effects on weight and sleep; exposure to inaccurate, inappropriate, or unsafe content and contacts; and compromised privacy and confidentiality. Parents face challenges in monitoring their children’s and their own media use and in serving as positive role models. In this new era, evidence regarding healthy media use does not support a one-size-fits-all approach. Parents and pediatricians can work together to develop a Family Media Use Plan (www.healthychildren.org/MediaUsePlan) that considers their children’s developmental stages to individualize an appropriate balance for media time and consistent rules about media use, to mentor their children, to set boundaries for accessing content and displaying personal information, and to implement open family communication about media.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1542/peds.2016-2592

Cites

58 of 58 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
COUNCIL ON COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA, Hill, D., Ameenuddin, N., Chassiakos, Y. (. R., Cross, C., Radesky, J., Hutchinson, J., Levine, A., Boyd, R., Mendelson, R., Moreno, M., Swanson, W. S., & MBE
Venue
Pediatrics
Published
2016-11-01
Volume
138
Issue
5
ISSN
  • 0031-4005 (ISSN-L)
  • 1098-4275
OpenAlex
W3213465777
Cited by
622
References
58
Citations by year
2026: 49 · 2025: 45 · 2024: 70 · 2023: 67 · 2022: 90 · 2021: 78 · 2020: 71 · 2019: 60 · 2018: 59 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 2
FWCI
19.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • PEDIATRICS (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Social Sciences › Education › Educational Methods and Impacts
Keywords
media use, children, adolescents, screen time, health promotion, weight gain, sleep, privacy and confidentiality, parental supervision, pediatrician role, family communication
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Child, Child Behavior, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Pediatrics, Personality Development, Social Behavior, Societies, Medical, Time Factors, Guidelines as Topic, Risk Assessment, Multimedia

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review