ScreenHealth – Screen Media Use Trajectories, Inequalities, and Long-Term Effects on Children’s Obesity and Mental Health

Our Recent Project

SCREENHEALTH looks at the increasing use of screen media devices by children and how that impacts their development and health.

Healthy lifestyle habits are most effective when developed at a young age.

SCREENHEALTH studies the interaction of multiple health-related behaviors: physical activity, eating patterns, sleep, and sedentary time.

Find Out More

Take Me There

This project is financed by national funds through FCT- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project “Screen Media Use Trajectories, Inequalities, and Long-Term Effects on Children’s Obesity and Mental Health” (2022.07652.PTDC). Daniela Rodrigues, the project’s principal investigator, is supported by National Funds through FCT, under the ‘Stimulus of Scientific Employment–Individual Support’ programme within the contract 2020.03966.CEECIND.

We would like to thank the schools and teachers for helping with research arrangements, and all the parents and children who attended to the SCREEN HEALTH study.

Our Recent Project

SCREENHEALTH looks at the increasing use of screen media devices by children and how that impacts their development and health.

Healthy lifestyle habits are most effective when developed at a young age.

SCREENHEALTH studies the interaction of multiple health-related behaviors: physical activity, eating patterns, sleep, and sedentary time.

Find Out More

About Salient