OBJECTIVE To determine if television viewing is associated with the risk of initiating sexual intercourse in young adolescents. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data obtained from 1994 through 1996. SETTING The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. PARTICIPANTS The 4808 students younger than 16 years who had not initiated intercourse before baseline interview. EXPOSURES Primary ...

Did you know there are more television sets in the world than there are telephones? Even the television professionals find it hard to believe. However the statistics prove it to be true; according to official figures from the International Telecommunication Union there were 565 million telephones in 1983, and 600 million television sets. Other figures are just as impressive: in Belgium, from 19...

Media research has shown that people enjoy watching television as a part of socializing in groups. However, many constraints in daily life limit the opportunities for doing so. The Social TV project builds on the increasing integration of television and computer technology to support sociable, computer-mediated group viewing experiences. In this paper, we describe the initial results from a ser...

Epidemiological surveys conducted in general populations have found that the prevalence of depression is about 9% in the United States. World Health Organization has projected that depression will be leading cause of disease burden by the year 2030. Growing evidence suggests that sedentary lifestyle is an important risk factor of depression among adults. The relationship between television watc...

OBJECTIVE To assess the influence of media, specifically reality television, on adolescent behavior. STUDY DESIGN A total of 1141 preteen and adolescent girls (age range 11-17) answered questions related to their reality television viewing, personality, self-esteem, relational aggression, appearance focus, and desire for fame. RESULTS Our results indicated that the influence of reality tele...

OBJECTIVES To examine the associations of demographics, rules associated with television-viewing, and physical activity with daily screen time (including television, non-school-related computer use, and video games) in children and adolescents. METHODS We analyzed data from a telephone survey of 7415 youth aged 9 to 15 years from the Youth Media Campaign Longitudinal Survey. We used logistic ...

This study exploits an optimal display brightness for watching television in the dark. Two experiments were carried out a dark room, and static moving images tested each experiment. In Experiment I, three different, full-screen color presented with levels ranging from 20 to 400 nit. A total of 23 college students assessed stimulus' degree visual comfort. II was conducted 31 participants, six vi...