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Parental modelling, media equipment and screen-viewing among young children: cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether parental screen-viewing, parental attitudes or access to media equipment were associated with the screen-viewing of 6-year-old to 8-year-old children. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Online survey. MAIN OUTCOME: Parental report of the number of hours per weekda...

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Autores principales: Jago, Russell, Sebire, Simon J, Lucas, Patricia J, Turner, Katrina M, Bentley, Georgina F, Goodred, Joanna K, Stewart-Brown, Sarah, Fox, Kenneth R
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23619088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002593
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author Jago, Russell
Sebire, Simon J
Lucas, Patricia J
Turner, Katrina M
Bentley, Georgina F
Goodred, Joanna K
Stewart-Brown, Sarah
Fox, Kenneth R
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description OBJECTIVE: To examine whether parental screen-viewing, parental attitudes or access to media equipment were associated with the screen-viewing of 6-year-old to 8-year-old children. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Online survey. MAIN OUTCOME: Parental report of the number of hours per weekday that they and, separately, their 6-year-old to 8-year-old child spent watching TV, using a games console, a smart-phone and multiscreen viewing. Parental screen-viewing, parental attitudes and pieces of media equipment were exposures. RESULTS: Over 75% of the parents and 62% of the children spent more than 2 h/weekday watching TV. Over two-thirds of the parents and almost 40% of the children spent more than an hour per day multiscreen viewing. The mean number of pieces of media equipment in the home was 5.9 items, with 1.3 items in the child's bedroom. Children who had parents who spent more than 2 h/day watching TV were over 7.8 times more likely to exceed the 2 h threshold. Girls and boys who had a parent who spent an hour or more multiscreen viewing were 34 times more likely to also spend more than an hour per day multiscreen viewing. Media equipment in the child's bedroom was associated with higher TV viewing, computer time and multiscreen viewing. Each increment in the parental agreement that watching TV was relaxing for their child was associated with a 49% increase in the likelihood that the child spent more than 2 h/day watching TV. CONCLUSIONS: Children who have parents who engage in high levels of screen-viewing are more likely to engage in high levels of screen-viewing. Access to media equipment, particularly in the child's bedroom, was associated with higher levels of screen-viewing. Family-based strategies to reduce screen-viewing and limit media equipment access may be important ways to reduce child screen-viewing.
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spelling pubmed-36414872013-05-07 Parental modelling, media equipment and screen-viewing among young children: cross-sectional study Jago, Russell Sebire, Simon J Lucas, Patricia J Turner, Katrina M Bentley, Georgina F Goodred, Joanna K Stewart-Brown, Sarah Fox, Kenneth R BMJ Open Public Health OBJECTIVE: To examine whether parental screen-viewing, parental attitudes or access to media equipment were associated with the screen-viewing of 6-year-old to 8-year-old children. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Online survey. MAIN OUTCOME: Parental report of the number of hours per weekday that they and, separately, their 6-year-old to 8-year-old child spent watching TV, using a games console, a smart-phone and multiscreen viewing. Parental screen-viewing, parental attitudes and pieces of media equipment were exposures. RESULTS: Over 75% of the parents and 62% of the children spent more than 2 h/weekday watching TV. Over two-thirds of the parents and almost 40% of the children spent more than an hour per day multiscreen viewing. The mean number of pieces of media equipment in the home was 5.9 items, with 1.3 items in the child's bedroom. Children who had parents who spent more than 2 h/day watching TV were over 7.8 times more likely to exceed the 2 h threshold. Girls and boys who had a parent who spent an hour or more multiscreen viewing were 34 times more likely to also spend more than an hour per day multiscreen viewing. Media equipment in the child's bedroom was associated with higher TV viewing, computer time and multiscreen viewing. Each increment in the parental agreement that watching TV was relaxing for their child was associated with a 49% increase in the likelihood that the child spent more than 2 h/day watching TV. CONCLUSIONS: Children who have parents who engage in high levels of screen-viewing are more likely to engage in high levels of screen-viewing. Access to media equipment, particularly in the child's bedroom, was associated with higher levels of screen-viewing. Family-based strategies to reduce screen-viewing and limit media equipment access may be important ways to reduce child screen-viewing. BMJ Publishing Group 2013-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3641487/ /pubmed/23619088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002593 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
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Jago, Russell
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Lucas, Patricia J
Turner, Katrina M
Bentley, Georgina F
Goodred, Joanna K
Stewart-Brown, Sarah
Fox, Kenneth R
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title Parental modelling, media equipment and screen-viewing among young children: cross-sectional study
title_full Parental modelling, media equipment and screen-viewing among young children: cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Parental modelling, media equipment and screen-viewing among young children: cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Parental modelling, media equipment and screen-viewing among young children: cross-sectional study
title_short Parental modelling, media equipment and screen-viewing among young children: cross-sectional study
title_sort parental modelling, media equipment and screen-viewing among young children: cross-sectional study
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3641487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23619088
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002593
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