"You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't": a qualitative exploration of parent motives for provision of mobile screen devices in early childhood

• Hauptverfasser: Sumudu R. Mallawaarachchi (Verfasst von), Merrilyn Hooley (Verfasst von), Wendy Sutherland-Smith (Verfasst von), Sharon Horwood (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: BMC, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Schlagworte: article
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Abstract Background Exploring parental motives for providing smartphones and tablets to young children is important to better understand ways to optimise healthy use of mobile screens in early childhood. To date, no study has qualitatively examined the factors underpinning parental motives of provid...