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Childhood correlates of adult TV viewing time: a 32-year follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study
BACKGROUND: To identify, using a longitudinal data set, parental and childhood correlates of adult television (TV) viewing time at 32-year follow-up. METHOD: Data were derived from the 1970 British Cohort Study, a longitudinal observational study of 17 248 British people born in a single week of 197...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4392198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25147213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204365 |
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description | BACKGROUND: To identify, using a longitudinal data set, parental and childhood correlates of adult television (TV) viewing time at 32-year follow-up. METHOD: Data were derived from the 1970 British Cohort Study, a longitudinal observational study of 17 248 British people born in a single week of 1970. The present analyses incorporated data from the age 10 and 42-year surveys. When participants were aged 10 years, their mothers provided information on how often participants watched TV and played sports (never/sometimes/often), and parents’ own occupation, as well as height and weight. A health visitor objectively assessed participants’ height and weight at age 10. Thirty-two years later, when participants were aged 42 years, they reported their daily TV viewing hours (none/0≤1/1<3/3<5/≥5), physical activity and health status. Associations between putative childhood and parental correlates and adult TV viewing time were investigated using logistic regression. RESULTS: Valid data at both time points were available for 6188 participants. Logistic regression models showed that those who reported ‘often’ watching TV at baseline were significantly more likely to watch >3 h/days of TV at follow-up (OR 1.42, 95% CI 1.21 to 1.65), as were those whose father was from a lower socio-occupational class (intermediate, routine/manual) compared with managerial (OR 1.55, 95% CI 1.14 to 2.11; OR 2.05, 95% CI 1.47 to 2.87). Body mass index (BMI) at age 10 was inversely associated with high TV in adulthood (per unit increase; OR 0.93, 95% CI 0.90 to 0.96) although fathers BMI when the child was aged 10 was positively associated with high TV in adulthood (per unit increase; OR 1.04, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.06). CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that childhood TV viewing time tracks into adulthood. Parents’ health behaviours and social position appear to be associated with their children's viewing habits, which may have important implications for the direction of future policy and practice. Specifically, findings support the case for early life interventions, particularly on socioeconomic inequalities, as a way of preventing sedentary behaviour in later life. |
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spelling | pubmed-43921982015-04-13 Childhood correlates of adult TV viewing time: a 32-year follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study Smith, L Gardner, B Hamer, M J Epidemiol Community Health Life Course and Long-Term Influences on Health BACKGROUND: To identify, using a longitudinal data set, parental and childhood correlates of adult television (TV) viewing time at 32-year follow-up. METHOD: Data were derived from the 1970 British Cohort Study, a longitudinal observational study of 17 248 British people born in a single week of 1970. The present analyses incorporated data from the age 10 and 42-year surveys. When participants were aged 10 years, their mothers provided information on how often participants watched TV and played sports (never/sometimes/often), and parents’ own occupation, as well as height and weight. A health visitor objectively assessed participants’ height and weight at age 10. Thirty-two years later, when participants were aged 42 years, they reported their daily TV viewing hours (none/0≤1/1<3/3<5/≥5), physical activity and health status. Associations between putative childhood and parental correlates and adult TV viewing time were investigated using logistic regression. RESULTS: Valid data at both time points were available for 6188 participants. Logistic regression models showed that those who reported ‘often’ watching TV at baseline were significantly more likely to watch >3 h/days of TV at follow-up (OR 1.42, 95% CI 1.21 to 1.65), as were those whose father was from a lower socio-occupational class (intermediate, routine/manual) compared with managerial (OR 1.55, 95% CI 1.14 to 2.11; OR 2.05, 95% CI 1.47 to 2.87). Body mass index (BMI) at age 10 was inversely associated with high TV in adulthood (per unit increase; OR 0.93, 95% CI 0.90 to 0.96) although fathers BMI when the child was aged 10 was positively associated with high TV in adulthood (per unit increase; OR 1.04, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.06). CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that childhood TV viewing time tracks into adulthood. Parents’ health behaviours and social position appear to be associated with their children's viewing habits, which may have important implications for the direction of future policy and practice. Specifically, findings support the case for early life interventions, particularly on socioeconomic inequalities, as a way of preventing sedentary behaviour in later life. BMJ Publishing Group 2015-04 2014-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4392198/ /pubmed/25147213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204365 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 in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Life Course and Long-Term Influences on Health Smith, L Gardner, B Hamer, M Childhood correlates of adult TV viewing time: a 32-year follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study |
title | Childhood correlates of adult TV viewing time: a 32-year follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study |
title_full | Childhood correlates of adult TV viewing time: a 32-year follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study |
title_fullStr | Childhood correlates of adult TV viewing time: a 32-year follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Childhood correlates of adult TV viewing time: a 32-year follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study |
title_short | Childhood correlates of adult TV viewing time: a 32-year follow-up of the 1970 British Cohort Study |
title_sort | childhood correlates of adult tv viewing time: a 32-year follow-up of the 1970 british cohort study |
topic | Life Course and Long-Term Influences on Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4392198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25147213 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2014-204365 |
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