{"id":21141,"date":"2025-12-08T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/social-media-use-damages-childrens-ability-to-focus-say-researchers\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:38:00","slug":"social-media-use-damages-childrens-ability-to-focus-say-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/social-media-use-damages-childrens-ability-to-focus-say-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media use damages children\u2019s ability to focus, say researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study of 8,300 US children suggests social media may be contributing to a rise in ADHD diagnoses<\/p>\n<p>Increased use of social media by children damages their concentration levels and may be contributing to an increase in cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to a study.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ki.se\/using-social-media-may-impair-childrens-attention\">peer-reviewed report<\/a> monitored the development of more than 8,300 US-based children from the age of 10 to 14 and linked social media use to \u201cincreased inattention symptoms\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/08\/social-media-damages-childrens-ability-to-focus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/99a847a0ababa42c078723775d3d8c193429fb86\/497_0_5037_4028\/master\/5037.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b3dace4c5ff219144b26f26e2f887234\" title=\"Social media use damages children\u2019s ability to focus, say researchers\" \/>Study of 8,300 US children suggests social media may be contributing to a rise in ADHD diagnoses<br \/>\nIncreased use of social media by children damages their concentration levels and may be contributing to an increase in cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to a study.<br \/>\nThe peer-reviewed report monitored the development of more than 8,300 US-based children from the age of 10 to 14 and linked social media use to \u201cincreased inattention symptoms\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study of 8,300 US children suggests social media may be contributing to a rise in ADHD diagnoses Increased use of social media by children damages their concentration levels and may be contributing to an increase in cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to a study. The peer-reviewed report monitored the development of more than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/social-media-use-damages-childrens-ability-to-focus-say-researchers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social media use damages children\u2019s ability to focus, say researchers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}