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CHILDREN’S USE OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY
OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of interactive media (tablets and smartphones) use by children aged two to four years old, as well as to characterize this use, and investigate habits, practices, parents’ participation and opinion about their child’s interactive media use. METHODS: A cross-sect...
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Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6909226/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31778410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-0462/2020/38/2018165 |
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author | Guedes, Sabrina da Conceição Morais, Rosane Luzia de Souza Santos, Lívia Rodrigues Leite, Hércules Ribeiro Nobre, Juliana Nogueira Pontes Santos, Juliana Nunes |
author_facet | Guedes, Sabrina da Conceição Morais, Rosane Luzia de Souza Santos, Lívia Rodrigues Leite, Hércules Ribeiro Nobre, Juliana Nogueira Pontes Santos, Juliana Nunes |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of interactive media (tablets and smartphones) use by children aged two to four years old, as well as to characterize this use, and investigate habits, practices, parents’ participation and opinion about their child’s interactive media use. METHODS: A cross-sectional study with 244 parents or legal guardians of children enrolled in daycare centers in a small Brazilian municipality was conducted. A questionnaire based on interactive media use and related habits were applied, and economic level was assessed. Children were divided into three different groups according to media use: Group 1 did not use (n=81); Group 2 uses up to 45 min/day (n=83) and Group 3 uses more than 45 min/day (n=80). Then, they were compared with regard to the sociodemographic variables and media use by the Chi-square test and Student’s t-test. RESULTS: The prevalence of interactive media use was 67.2%, with a mean time of use of 69.2 minutes/day (confidence interval of 95% - 95%CI 57.1-81.2). The activities most performed were watching videos (55%), listening to music (33%) and playing games (28%). Most parents reported allowing media use in order to stimulate their child’s development (58.4%), accompanying them during use (75.2%), and limiting media time (86.4%). CONCLUSIONS: We observed high interactive media use prevalence. The predominant way of using these devices was marked by parent-child participation. Most parents reported believing in the benefits of interactive media. Passive activities were more frequent, with restricted time of use. |
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spelling | pubmed-69092262020-01-21 CHILDREN’S USE OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY Guedes, Sabrina da Conceição Morais, Rosane Luzia de Souza Santos, Lívia Rodrigues Leite, Hércules Ribeiro Nobre, Juliana Nogueira Pontes Santos, Juliana Nunes Rev Paul Pediatr Original Article OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of interactive media (tablets and smartphones) use by children aged two to four years old, as well as to characterize this use, and investigate habits, practices, parents’ participation and opinion about their child’s interactive media use. METHODS: A cross-sectional study with 244 parents or legal guardians of children enrolled in daycare centers in a small Brazilian municipality was conducted. A questionnaire based on interactive media use and related habits were applied, and economic level was assessed. Children were divided into three different groups according to media use: Group 1 did not use (n=81); Group 2 uses up to 45 min/day (n=83) and Group 3 uses more than 45 min/day (n=80). Then, they were compared with regard to the sociodemographic variables and media use by the Chi-square test and Student’s t-test. RESULTS: The prevalence of interactive media use was 67.2%, with a mean time of use of 69.2 minutes/day (confidence interval of 95% - 95%CI 57.1-81.2). The activities most performed were watching videos (55%), listening to music (33%) and playing games (28%). Most parents reported allowing media use in order to stimulate their child’s development (58.4%), accompanying them during use (75.2%), and limiting media time (86.4%). CONCLUSIONS: We observed high interactive media use prevalence. The predominant way of using these devices was marked by parent-child participation. Most parents reported believing in the benefits of interactive media. Passive activities were more frequent, with restricted time of use. Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo 2019-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6909226/ /pubmed/31778410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-0462/2020/38/2018165 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License |
spellingShingle | Original Article Guedes, Sabrina da Conceição Morais, Rosane Luzia de Souza Santos, Lívia Rodrigues Leite, Hércules Ribeiro Nobre, Juliana Nogueira Pontes Santos, Juliana Nunes CHILDREN’S USE OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY |
title | CHILDREN’S USE OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY |
title_full | CHILDREN’S USE OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY |
title_fullStr | CHILDREN’S USE OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY |
title_full_unstemmed | CHILDREN’S USE OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY |
title_short | CHILDREN’S USE OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY |
title_sort | children’s use of interactive media in early childhood - an epidemiological study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6909226/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31778410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-0462/2020/38/2018165 |
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