- Title
- Association between the family and environment and television viewing in Australian children
- Creator
- Van Zutphen, Moniek; Bell, Andrew; Kremer, Peter; Swinburn, Boyd
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/39722
- Identifier
- vital:904
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1754.2007.01111.x
- Identifier
- ISSN:1034-4810
- Abstract
- Aim: To describe the time children spend watching television (TV) and to assess associations between TV viewing time, the family environment and weight status. Methods: Parents reported the amount of time children watched TV/video both for 'the previous school day' and 'usually' and described aspects of the family environment influencing TV access as part of a large cross-sectional study in the Barwon South-western region of Victoria, Australia. Child weight status was based on measured height and weight. All data were collected in 2003/2004. Results: A total of 1926 children aged 4–12 years participated. Parent-reported mean ± SE TV time for the previous school day was 83 ± 1.5 min. Children who lived in a family with tight rules governing TV viewing time (22%), or who never watched TV during dinner (33%), or had only one TV in the household (23%) or had no TV in their bedroom (81%) had significantly less TV time than their counterparts. Overweight or obese children had more TV time than healthy weight children 88 ± 2.9 versus 82 ± 1.7 min per day (P = 0.04). They were also more likely to live in a household where children had a TV in their bedroom than healthy weight children (25% vs. 17%, P < 0.001). Conclusion: Strategies to reduce TV time should be included as part of broader strategies to prevent childhood obesity. They should include messages to parents about not having a TV in children's bedrooms, encouraging family rules restricting TV viewing, and not having the TV on during dinner.; C1
- Publisher
- Victoria, Australia Blackwell publishing
- Relation
- Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health Vol. 43, no. (2007), p. 458-463
- Rights
- Copyright Blackwell Publishing
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Child; Environment; Family; Obesity; Television
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