Screen-viewing and the home TV environment: The European Youth Heart Study
Jago, Russell; Page, Angie S.; Froberg, Karsten; Sardinha, Luis B.; Klasson-Heggebø, Lena; Andersen, Lars Bo
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2008-08-03Metadata
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Preventive Medicine. 2008, 47(5), 525-529Abstract
Objective
Examine if home environmental factors are associated with screen-viewing.
Methods
Data are for 2670, 3rd and 9th grade participants in Denmark, Portugal, Estonia and Norway collected between 1997 and 2000. Outcomes were spending > 2 h after-school watching television (TV) and > 1 h per day playing computer games. Child Autonomy and the home TV Environment were exposures.
Results
Each unit increase in Child Autonomy was associated with 9% increase in risk of watching more than 2 h of TV per day after school and a 19% increase in risk of spending more than an hour per day playing computer games. TV Environment was associated with a 31% per unit increase in risk of watching > 2 h of TV after school and 11% increase in risk of spending > 1 h playing computer games.
Conclusions
A family environment in which after-school TV viewing is part of the home culture and homes where children have more autonomy over their own behavior are associated with an increased risk of watching > 2 h of TV per day after school and spending more > 1 h per day playing computer games. The home screen-viewing environment and Child Autonomy may be malleable targets for changing screen-viewing.
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