Our Studies
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Anorexia and bulimia on internet
Since Protegeles launched its First Campaign against Anorexia and Bulimia on Internet in June 2004, till the launching of the second one in May 2005, PROTEGELES had assisted more than 200 girls that came to us presenting different phases of an Eating Disorder...read more
Mobile Phones
This study was undertaken and carried out by PROTEGELES, a Child Welfare Association on the Information and Communication Technologies under the Child Ombudsperson request.
It is remarkable that most children do very rarely use their ...
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Anorexia and bulimia prevention
Pro-ANA and PRO-MIA pages are mostly visited by girls under 18 years of age: around 78% of visitors to these pages are not 18 years old. Besides, 10% of children visiting this kind of pages are under 14 years-old.
Moreover, 95% of the visitors are girls while only 5% of them are boys. ...
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Cybercentres and Child Safety
Thanks to this study we have been able to determine that the majority of children and young people going to a cybercentre don’t do it very often, that is to say less than two days per week. 82% of children go to a cybercentre just one day ...
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Children's habits on internet
Only one out of three children using Internet mention searching for information as his or her main objective. Most of them, 66%, think of Internet as an entertainment tool: 36% get connected mainly to chat online, 17% to play computer ...
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