Time spent at the computer or TV on mental disorders in children related, no matter how much practice the child, new research suggests.

This means that children can not get around much TV time, and spend more hours, researchers report in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics. The results also show that children spend their time, meeting, not only because of psychological problems.

Previous studies have shown that sport good for children, psychological function, and that the time is before the screens is bad for your mental health. What the researchers did not know whether it was possible to disable it.

“It was not clear whether the high level of exercise can achieve a high level of total ads to compensate for children,” wrote co-author Angela Page, a professor of nutrition and exercise, and health sciences at the University of Bristol in England, in an e Email LiveScience.

The researchers surveyed 1013 British 10 – and 11 years every day, how much time they spend on the computer or TV. The children carried momentum around the waist for a week of training time slider at the meeting.

In addition, participants completed questionnaires with questions about their emotional problems, social relationships, and behavioral disturbances levels of hyperactivity. The answers to the questionnaire used widely in the score of the emotional and behavioral disorders in children to create integrated.

The study found that achieved, regardless of age, gender, socioeconomic status, or if a child was young, more than two hours a day watching television or a computer associated with emotional and behavioral problems. In particular, the relationship between screen time and physical problems of prisoners, regardless of how many children in the control exercise

No other active activities such as reading or homework were associated with poor mental health, says Page. Also sat the whole time. It could be that a meeting while sitting behaviors affect health in part, the researchers wrote in the document.

“It’s more like what you do in this moment sit in the sense, that is, if you have many hours of music listening more screen to spend for entertainment, it comes to negative mental health,” wrote the page in an e-mail .

The results suggest that parents do not rely on a soccer practice or go to the many hours of computer games and TV shows get, “said Page. Instead, he said, should take the parents to encourage physical activity, but also turn off the TV and the PC more often