BACKGROUND TV and other screen use are common among elementary school aged children with both potential benefits and harms. It is not clear why some parents restrict their children's screen use and others do not. Parent's outcome expectations for allowing their child to watch TV and other screen media, i.e. the perceived 'costs' and 'benefits,' may be influential. Our objective was to develop a...

INTRODUCTION We aimed to assess longitudinal changes in television (TV) food advertising during 2013 compared to 2007, measuring children's exposure to healthy and unhealthy advertisements, after the new European and Spanish Public Health laws published in 2011. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two thematic channels for children (TC), and 2 generalist channels (GC) for all ages were recorded, between Apr...

BACKGROUND Parents and their parenting practices play an important role in shaping their children's environment and energy-balance related behaviours (EBRBs). Measurement of parenting practices can be parent- or child-informed, however not much is known about agreement between parent and child perspectives. This study aimed to assess agreement between parent and child reports on parental practi...

AIM The aim of the present study was to explore if children who spend more time on screen-based sedentary behaviors (i.e.TV viewing and computer use) drink more sugar-sweetened soft drinks. The study also assessed whether these associations were independent of individual and home environmental correlates of soft drink consumption and whether they were moderated by parental education. METHODS ...

The aim of this study was to investigate sleep, television and computer habits and enjoyment and feelings of tiredness in school of school-age children and adolescents in Sweden. An instrument found to be valid and reliable here was distributed to 3,011 children aged 6, 7, 10, 14, and 16 years. Those sleeping less than the median length of time reported a significantly lower degree of enjoyment...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the relations of adiposity and lifestyle factors in young offspring with their parents as children (parentschild) or at their current age (parentsadult). Therefore, we compared measures of adiposity and lifestyle in parentschild and parentsadult with their offspring. METHODS Two generations (one parent and his/her offspring) participated in this study: 234...

Video games or computer games are an important part of most young people’s lives today in OECD countries. PISA (2003) showed that 53% of OECD students age 15 play games frequently (“almost every day” or “a few times a week”). In the U.S. studies show that teenagers are spending more time playing computer games and other digital media (e.g. computers and the Internet), than watching TV. Specific...

Increasing screen time in childhood has raised concerns about potential effects on academic achievement, with speculation that this is due part to an overall decrease sleep. However, research does not often distinguish between different types of time, such as dedicated home or other educational pursuits. Further, family factors socioeconomic status are known predict performance but rarely exami...