Wellbeing - feeling addicted to your phone? by BMJ talk medicine published on 2021-11-26T12:53:25Z 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 mentions https://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 children https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18316661/ Distraction: an assessment of smartphone usage in health care work settings https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3437811/ Treatment Considerations in Internet and Video Game Addiction https://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 Comment by Dr. Sunita Very informative podcast. All the aspects have been explained logically and analytically.Will surely help in decreasing our scrren time. Thanks to Dr. Nidhi and team members for this enlighening session. 2021-11-27T13:57:35Z Comment by Sudesh This topic is absolutely the need of the hour. We are literally in the grip of wireless mobile devices and need to break our dependency on them. Thanks for the advice and ideas suggested through your podcast. 2021-11-27T04:21:38Z