Introduction: Adolescence is marked as a critical period of human life because the rapid physical and sexual growth. Technological advances in recent decades have increased interaction adolescents with screen-based technologies. The unhealthiest diets all age groups, most do not meet national guidelines for activity. Objectives: To assess activity, dietary pattern screen time among urban to fin...

Introduction. The increase in sedentary screen time can negatively affect the quality of sleep, impacting performance daily activities. Objective. To analyze association between and sleep quality, regardless symptoms anxiety adolescents both genders. Method. Cross-sectional study integrating school-based epidemiological research with a representative sample (n = 666) high school students (14 to...

BACKGROUND Associations between the combined effect of physical activity and screen based activities on health related quality of life remain largely undetermined. METHODS During 2008-2010, cross-sectional data for self-reported health related quality of life, physical activity, and screen-time were collected for 3796 Australian adults. Logistic regression was conducted to examine association...

OBJECTIVE To provide descriptive information on the screen time levels of Mexican children. MATERIALS AND METHODS 5 660 children aged 10-18 years from the 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey (ENSANUT 2012) were studied. Screen time (watching television, movies, playing video games and using a computer) was self-reported. RESULTS On average, children engaged in 3 hours/day of screen ti...

PURPOSE To determine the percentage of Canadian youth meeting screen-time guidelines and to identify characteristics associated with different screen-time behaviours. METHODS Using nationally representative data collected from the 2008/2009 Youth Smoking Survey (YSS), we analyzed three screen-time behaviours, cigarette smoking, weekly spending money, self esteem, region and grade by sex, and ...