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Digital world's effect on children's mental health

Teenage girl gaming at home. [Getty Images]

Technology has increasingly blurred the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. This has led to dramatic shifts in daily life and changed the way children and adolescents live, socialise, move around and learn.

Never before has this been so evident than at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent exponential rise in technology and internet use. Global estimates suggest that one in three internet users is a child.

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