The involvement of children in the virtual environment has been increased in recent years by the ever-expanding diversity of electronic media devices. Children often use this virtual world to access to information, in areas such as communication, digital games, and social media. The children are forming the population using the internet by the growing rate in our country similar to all over the world. It has some difficulties to accommodate to a fast developing and changing condition for the children who have age specific characteristics. The need to control the internet and computer usage of the children have been investigated in many trials. It has some difficulties to adapt to the rapidly changing virtual world, therefore the regulations about the screen exposure of children should be updated at definitive intervals. It is important to support the development of children during their adaptation to the virtual world. Also; the children should use the virtual world with minimum harm to their physical and cognitive abilities. The internet is used in different forms in different aged groups. Its use is recommended in an appropriate time and context for the cognitive and physical development of children. While the using period and content of internet and computer usage is important especially in the pre-school period, parental control for the adolescent period may carry out more importance. Internet dependence, which is defined as the overuse of the Internet and having absence findings in the case of separation, is seen mostly in adolescent period. Child abuse that is described as ill-treatment to the child is a problem in the virtual environment as well as in real life. Initially, parents have responsibility to foresee and to protect their children from this situation. It may be possible to prevent harmful effects of internet when the risks of the internet can be predicted. The clinicians should inform the parents regarding the risks of the computer and internet usage of the childen and increase the knowledge and awareness of the parents about that issue in healthy child follow-up visits
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Health Care Administration |
Journal Section | Review |
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Publication Date | January 15, 2018 |
Acceptance Date | November 7, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 |