Chorna V. Hygienic assessment of conditions which form computer dependency by school-age children, its diagnosis and prevention

The thesis is devoted to the defining and argumentation of the hygienic assessment of the conditions which form a computer dependency by school-age children, its diagnosis and prevention. The criteria of the prophylactic measures on prevention computer dependency by school-age children are reasoned here. In this paper the comparative evaluation of the hygienic conditions and time regulations while using PC by school-age children in classrooms and Internet clubs is given; the peculiarities of school-age children's health who visited the Internet clubs systematically and played computer games are defined; the research on the influence of the computer games of different types on the morpho- and mental functional state of the town and country children of junior, secondary and senior school years under observation on location is depicted; The conditions under which computer dependence is formed influenced by different types of the computer games are studied; Diagnostic and preventive measures against the formation of computer dependency by the schoolchildren under the influence of the computer games are worked out and scientifically proved.