Professor Richard Delorme is Head of the Child Psychiatry Department at Robert Debré Hospital in Paris. Since the start of the pandemic, the use of the emergency department of this hospital has doubled among children and adolescents. And screen-related disorders appear from an early age.
LE FIGARO.
- Have you noticed an overconsumption of screens among children and adolescents since the start of the pandemic and the successive confinements?
Richard DELORME.
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This overconsumption existed before the pandemic.
We also created a special screen addiction service at Robert Debré to welcome families six years ago.
But the confinements have radicalized these addictions.
This is quite worrying, even if we can easily understand why.
When classes or schools are closed, in order to be able to work, parents may have tended to put children in front of screens.
They watched television but especially YouTube, video games, etc.
A lot
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