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Adolescent in-school cellphone habits: a census of rules, survey of their effectiveness, and fertility implications.
Redmayne M, Smith E, Abramson MJ. · 2011
View Original AbstractStudents who break school phone rules also engage in higher-risk behaviors, warranting stronger policies to protect developing reproductive systems.
Plain English Summary
Researchers surveyed Australian schools and found that while all schools banned cellphones in class, 43% of students admitted to breaking this rule. Students who used phones at school were also more likely to carry them switched on for over 10 hours daily and keep them in their pockets. The researchers reviewed fertility studies and concluded there's enough evidence of reproductive harm to warrant removing phones from students during the entire school day.
Study Details
We explored school cellphone rules and adolescent exposure to cellphone microwave emissions during school with a census and survey, respectively.
The data were used to assess health and policy implications through a review of papers assessing rep...
The fertility literature is inconclusive, but increasingly points towards significant time- and dose...
There is sufficient evidence and expert opinion to warrant an enforced school policy removing cellphones from students during the day.
Show BibTeX
@article{m_2011_adolescent_inschool_cellphone_habits_3321,
author = {Redmayne M and Smith E and Abramson MJ. },
title = {Adolescent in-school cellphone habits: a census of rules, survey of their effectiveness, and fertility implications. },
year = {2011},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21920431/},
}