Wellbeing - feeling addicted to your phone? - a podcast by BMJ Group

In the wellbeing podcast, the dread topic of phone usage has come up again - how social media, and an "always on" culture can affect our wellbeing.

But knowing that, and changing our behaviour are two different things - so to give some advice on reducing our reliance on phones, Abi and Cat are joined by Nidhi Gupta, assistant professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who's been using techniques from behavioural addiction to help with device usage.For more from Nidhi, visit https://phreedom.net/

Some of the research that Nidhi mentionshttps://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/138/5/e20162591/60503/Media-and-Young-Minds

A randomized trial of the effects of reducing television viewing and computer use on body mass index in young childrenhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18316661/

Distraction: an assessment of smartphone usage in health care work settingshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3437811/

Treatment Considerations in Internet and Video Game Addictionhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29502754/

The Smartphone Addiction Scale: Development and Validation of a Short Version for Adolescents

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0083558

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