Essay On Screen Time In Australia
Research Project Assignment 3 – The Evaluation
Summary
I selected ‘To what extent has screen time impacted childhood obesity in Australia?’ as my research question since I wanted to study a topic surrounding the well-being of children due to my strong intention of working in that area. I had witnessed that screen time and obesity were becoming more frequent news topics and wanted to know more. The research processes used for the written outcome were reviewing articles, surveying, interviewing, viewing multimedia, reading government, education and news sites, and uncategorised online research. The key findings from my research were, screen use has increased dramatically, it can enhance learning, screen time and obesity are detrimental to mental and physical health and monitoring and reducing screen time could reduce obesity. I concluded that screen time is now the main cause of childhood obesity in Australia and has taken over lack of physical exercise as the leading cause. Word Count: 147
Processes
Surveying
Surveying was a useful research process as it allowed me …show more content…
I did not know and qualified professionals in the area of study so I needed a way of building connections with them. I emailed multiple dieticians, psychologists, and doctors to request interviews however, many did not receive responses or with a large majority the response said they would not be able to do an interview. This was frustrating as it limited the amount of primary resources that could be accessed. To overcome this I emailed more professionals, and also expanded my requests to teachers and kindergarten workers. This was successful as I received many responses back however, if I had phoned some of the businesses and people or personally visited their practice I may have received more responses back and had the opportunity to gain more primary research making my outcome more
Summary
I selected ‘To what extent has screen time impacted childhood obesity in Australia?’ as my research question since I wanted to study a topic surrounding the well-being of children due to my strong intention of working in that area. I had witnessed that screen time and obesity were becoming more frequent news topics and wanted to know more. The research processes used for the written outcome were reviewing articles, surveying, interviewing, viewing multimedia, reading government, education and news sites, and uncategorised online research. The key findings from my research were, screen use has increased dramatically, it can enhance learning, screen time and obesity are detrimental to mental and physical health and monitoring and reducing screen time could reduce obesity. I concluded that screen time is now the main cause of childhood obesity in Australia and has taken over lack of physical exercise as the leading cause. Word Count: 147
Processes
Surveying
Surveying was a useful research process as it allowed me …show more content…
I did not know and qualified professionals in the area of study so I needed a way of building connections with them. I emailed multiple dieticians, psychologists, and doctors to request interviews however, many did not receive responses or with a large majority the response said they would not be able to do an interview. This was frustrating as it limited the amount of primary resources that could be accessed. To overcome this I emailed more professionals, and also expanded my requests to teachers and kindergarten workers. This was successful as I received many responses back however, if I had phoned some of the businesses and people or personally visited their practice I may have received more responses back and had the opportunity to gain more primary research making my outcome more