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Parent Mobile Phone Use in Playgrounds: A Paradox of Convenience
Creating social and physical environments that promote good health is a key component of a social determinants approach. For the parents of young children, a smartphone offers opportunities for social networking, photography and multi-tasking. Understanding the relationship between supervision, mobi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7764574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33321744 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children7120284 |
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author | Bury, Keira Jancey, Jonine Leavy, Justine E. |
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description | Creating social and physical environments that promote good health is a key component of a social determinants approach. For the parents of young children, a smartphone offers opportunities for social networking, photography and multi-tasking. Understanding the relationship between supervision, mobile phone use and injury in the playground setting is essential. This research explored parent mobile device use (MDU), parent–child interaction in the playground, parent attitudes and perceptions towards MDU and strategies used to limit MDU in the playground. A mixed-methods approach collected naturalistic observations of parents of children aged 0–5 (n = 85) and intercept interviews (n = 20) at four metropolitan playgrounds in Perth, Western Australia. Most frequently observed MDU was scrolling (75.5%) and telephone calls (13.9%). Increased duration of MDU resulted in a reduction in supervision, parent–child play and increased child injury potential. The camera function offered the most benefits. Strategies to prevent MDU included turning to silent mode, wearing a watch and environmental cues. MDU was found to contribute to reduced supervision of children, which is a risk factor for injury. This is an emerging area of injury prevention indicating a need for broader strategies addressing the complex interplay between the social determinants and the developmental younger years. |
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spelling | pubmed-77645742020-12-27 Parent Mobile Phone Use in Playgrounds: A Paradox of Convenience Bury, Keira Jancey, Jonine Leavy, Justine E. Children (Basel) Article Creating social and physical environments that promote good health is a key component of a social determinants approach. For the parents of young children, a smartphone offers opportunities for social networking, photography and multi-tasking. Understanding the relationship between supervision, mobile phone use and injury in the playground setting is essential. This research explored parent mobile device use (MDU), parent–child interaction in the playground, parent attitudes and perceptions towards MDU and strategies used to limit MDU in the playground. A mixed-methods approach collected naturalistic observations of parents of children aged 0–5 (n = 85) and intercept interviews (n = 20) at four metropolitan playgrounds in Perth, Western Australia. Most frequently observed MDU was scrolling (75.5%) and telephone calls (13.9%). Increased duration of MDU resulted in a reduction in supervision, parent–child play and increased child injury potential. The camera function offered the most benefits. Strategies to prevent MDU included turning to silent mode, wearing a watch and environmental cues. MDU was found to contribute to reduced supervision of children, which is a risk factor for injury. This is an emerging area of injury prevention indicating a need for broader strategies addressing the complex interplay between the social determinants and the developmental younger years. MDPI 2020-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7764574/ /pubmed/33321744 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children7120284 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bury, Keira Jancey, Jonine Leavy, Justine E. Parent Mobile Phone Use in Playgrounds: A Paradox of Convenience |
title | Parent Mobile Phone Use in Playgrounds: A Paradox of Convenience |
title_full | Parent Mobile Phone Use in Playgrounds: A Paradox of Convenience |
title_fullStr | Parent Mobile Phone Use in Playgrounds: A Paradox of Convenience |
title_full_unstemmed | Parent Mobile Phone Use in Playgrounds: A Paradox of Convenience |
title_short | Parent Mobile Phone Use in Playgrounds: A Paradox of Convenience |
title_sort | parent mobile phone use in playgrounds: a paradox of convenience |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7764574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33321744 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children7120284 |
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