OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is a relationship between the time adolescents spend in physical activity and time they spend in different sedentary pursuits: watching television, playing video games, working on computers, doing homework, and reading, taking into account the effect of part-time work on students' residual time. DESIGN Cross-sectional cohort design. PARTICIPANTS AND SETT...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of overweight in a sample of urban American Indian adolescents and identify associated behavioral, personal, and socioenvironmental factors. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Participants were 246 American Indian boys and girls from the Saint Paul-Minneapolis metropolitan area of Minnesota who completed classroom surveys and anthropometric measurements as part of ...

Bangladesh has made significant social, economic, and health progress in recent decades, yet many reproductive health indicators remain weak. Access to television (TV) is increasing rapidly and provides a potential mechanism for influencing health behavior. We present a conceptual framework for the influence of different types of TV exposure on individual's aspirations and health behavior throu...

Introduction Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an intense, prolonged and sometimes delayed reaction to extremely stressful events such as natural disasters or man-made calamities, characterised by persistent hyperarousal, reexperiencing of images of the stressful event and avoid­ ance of reminders (1). The disorder can become chronic and disabling with delay in treatment (2). PTSD can al...

Imagine a computer plugged into your television at home or in a foreign hotel. In the morning, it can barely transcribe one out of two words correctly, but by evening, it can provide a largely correct transcript of the evening news show, based on what it learned during the day from the TV. This seems like the core of familiar science fiction shows, but the research described here brings this vi...

The article discusses the implications, potential, and ways of using online media in context television journalism. Watching TV together is moving to social networks. Relying on concept viewing, paper tried study how station editors use networks, as well what extent networks a source content. These questions were investigated empirically method content analysis sample 10 BH. stations. results p...

Professional wrestling has become the latest fad among children and adolescents. There is a concern among the public and school personnel, including teachers, school psychologists, and counselors, that it influences children's behavior in an aggressive manner. It is also thought that children perceive wrestling as reality instead of perceiving it as fantasy. With the majority of children and ad...

BACKGROUND Sedentary behavior is associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, and cancer morbidity, and watching television (TV) is an important sedentary behavior. The aim of this study is to clarify the association between TV viewing time and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related mortality in Japanese adults. METHODS Using the Cox proportional hazard model, we a...