background: excessive and uncontrolled television watching by children predisposes them to some risks such as developmental, social and psychological disorders. parents play an important role in nurturing their children and controlling the factors affecting their health. the aim of this study was to determine the impact of health education programs on parents' supervision skills to control thei...

OBJECTIVE The study investigated the impact of thin idealized images of women as presented in music television, a popular form of entertainment for young people. METHODS A sample of 84 women viewed a videotape containing either appearance music videos (which emphasized appearance and featured thin and attractive women) or non-appearance music videos. The instructional set was also manipulated...

Many young children have televisions in their bedrooms, which may influence the relationship between parental estimate and objective measures of child television usage/week. Parental estimates of child television time of eighty 4-7 year old children (6.0 +/- 1.2 years) at the 75th BMI percentile or greater (90.8 +/- 6.8 BMI percentile) were compared to an objective measure of television time ob...

portraying women in the media is one of the main social and cultural issues especially on television. television commercials as a genre have ideas about goods and services, but it constructs a secondary discourse about society, culture and gender roles along the way. the main goal of this paper is to examine women’s readings of gender roles representation in iranian television commercials from ...

BACKGROUND Sedentary activities, such as watching television, may disrupt habituation to food cues, thereby increasing motivation to eat and energy intake. OBJECTIVE These experiments were designed to examine the effect of television watching on habituation of ingestive behavior in children. DESIGN In experiment 1, all children worked for access to cheeseburgers in trials 1-7 (habituating s...

BACKGROUND This survey determined the practices about television (video inclusive), videogames, and computer use in children and adolescents in Italy. METHODS A self-administered anonymous questionnaire covered socio-demographics; behaviour about television, videogames, computer, and sports; parental control over television, videogames, and computer. RESULTS Overall, 54.1% and 61% always at...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether eating while watching television poses a risk for poor nutrition and excess body weight over and above that of time spent watching television. DESIGN We analysed data of grade 5 students participating in a comprehensive population-based survey in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. This survey included the Harvard's Youth Food Frequency Questionnaire, students' ...

This study experimentally tested the effects of exposure to television commercials using less thin models on mood, body focused anxiety and food intake, as compared to the effects of commercials using thin models. In a naturalistic setting, 110 young women were exposed to a neutral movie, interrupted by two commercial breaks. The commercial breaks contained real commercials using either less th...

This research was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a distraction technique in reducing young children’s negative responses to dental care. Fifty-five dentally naive children, ranging in age from two to six years, were studied over a sedes of four dental visits. Patients in the distraction condition viewed familiar ch3"ldren’s television programs throughout heir dental visits; patients...

We set up an environment in which a database is lled with television data from several information channels. Philips Sound and Vision provides a prototype television that is very suited for this application. The combination of television and personal computer is used to investigate new paradigms to enhance the traditional television interface. Multimedia database technology provides the basis f...