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How parents can affect excessive spending of time on screen-based activities

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to explore the association between family-related factors and excessive time spent on screen-based activities among school-aged children. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey using the methodology of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study was performed i...

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Autores principales: Brindova, Daniela, Pavelka, Jan, Ševčikova, Anna, Žežula, Ivan, van Dijk, Jitse P, Reijneveld, Sijmen A, Madarasova Geckova, Andrea
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4295288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25494708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1261
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author Brindova, Daniela
Pavelka, Jan
Ševčikova, Anna
Žežula, Ivan
van Dijk, Jitse P
Reijneveld, Sijmen A
Madarasova Geckova, Andrea
author_facet Brindova, Daniela
Pavelka, Jan
Ševčikova, Anna
Žežula, Ivan
van Dijk, Jitse P
Reijneveld, Sijmen A
Madarasova Geckova, Andrea
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description BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to explore the association between family-related factors and excessive time spent on screen-based activities among school-aged children. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey using the methodology of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study was performed in 2013, with data collected from Slovak (n = 258) and Czech (n = 406) 11- and 15-year-old children. The effects of age, gender, availability of a TV or computer in the bedroom, parental rules on time spent watching TV or working on a computer, parental rules on the content of TV programmes and computer work and watching TV together with parents on excessive time spent with screen-based activities were explored using logistic regression models. RESULTS: Two-thirds of respondents watch TV or play computer games at least two hours a day. Older children have a 1.80-times higher chance of excessive TV watching (CI: 1.30-2.51) and a 3.91-times higher chance of excessive computer use (CI: 2.82-5.43) in comparison with younger children. More than half of children have a TV (53%) and a computer (73%) available in their bedroom, which increases the chance of excessive TV watching by 1.59 times (CI: 1.17-2.16) and of computer use by 2.25 times (CI: 1.59-3.20). More than half of parents rarely or never apply rules on the length of TV watching (64%) or time spent on computer work (56%), and their children have a 1.76-times higher chance of excessive TV watching (CI: 1.26-2.46) and a 1.50-times greater chance of excessive computer use (CI: 1.07-2.08). A quarter of children reported that they are used to watching TV together with their parents every day, and these have a 1.84-times higher chance of excessive TV watching (1.25-2.70). CONCLUSIONS: Reducing time spent watching TV by applying parental rules or a parental role model might help prevent excessive time spent on screen-based activities.
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spelling pubmed-42952882015-01-16 How parents can affect excessive spending of time on screen-based activities Brindova, Daniela Pavelka, Jan Ševčikova, Anna Žežula, Ivan van Dijk, Jitse P Reijneveld, Sijmen A Madarasova Geckova, Andrea BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to explore the association between family-related factors and excessive time spent on screen-based activities among school-aged children. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey using the methodology of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study was performed in 2013, with data collected from Slovak (n = 258) and Czech (n = 406) 11- and 15-year-old children. The effects of age, gender, availability of a TV or computer in the bedroom, parental rules on time spent watching TV or working on a computer, parental rules on the content of TV programmes and computer work and watching TV together with parents on excessive time spent with screen-based activities were explored using logistic regression models. RESULTS: Two-thirds of respondents watch TV or play computer games at least two hours a day. Older children have a 1.80-times higher chance of excessive TV watching (CI: 1.30-2.51) and a 3.91-times higher chance of excessive computer use (CI: 2.82-5.43) in comparison with younger children. More than half of children have a TV (53%) and a computer (73%) available in their bedroom, which increases the chance of excessive TV watching by 1.59 times (CI: 1.17-2.16) and of computer use by 2.25 times (CI: 1.59-3.20). More than half of parents rarely or never apply rules on the length of TV watching (64%) or time spent on computer work (56%), and their children have a 1.76-times higher chance of excessive TV watching (CI: 1.26-2.46) and a 1.50-times greater chance of excessive computer use (CI: 1.07-2.08). A quarter of children reported that they are used to watching TV together with their parents every day, and these have a 1.84-times higher chance of excessive TV watching (1.25-2.70). CONCLUSIONS: Reducing time spent watching TV by applying parental rules or a parental role model might help prevent excessive time spent on screen-based activities. BioMed Central 2014-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4295288/ /pubmed/25494708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1261 Text en © Brindova et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1261
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