Individual, social, and physical environment factors associated with electronic media use among children : sedentary behavior at home Granich, Joanna, Rosenberg, Michael, Knuiman, Matthew W. and Timperio, Anna 2011, Individual, social, and physical environment factors associated with electronic media use among children : sedentary behavior at home, Journal of physical activity and health, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 613-625. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Individual, social, and physical environment factors associated with electronic media use among children : sedentary behavior at home Author(s) Granich, Joanna Rosenberg, Michael Knuiman, Matthew W. Timperio, Anna orcid.org/0000-0002-8773-5012 Journal name Journal of physical activity and health Volume number 8 Issue number 5 Start page 613 End page 625 Total pages 13 Publisher Human Kinetics Place of publication Champaign, Ill. Publication date 2011-07 ISSN 1543-3080 1543-5474 Keyword(s) youth family television viewing physical activity body mass index Summary Background: Individual, home social and physical environment correlates of electronic media (EM) use among children were examined and pattern of differences on school and weekend days. Methods: Youth (n = 298) aged 11 to 12 years self-reported time spent using EM (TV, video/DVD, computer use, and electronic games) on a typical school and a weekend day, each dichotomized at the median to indicate heavy and light EM users. Anthropometric measurements were taken. Logistic regression examined correlates of EM use. Results: In total, 87% of participants exceeded electronic media use recommendations of ≤ 2 hrs/day. Watching TV during breakfast (OR = 3.17) and after school (OR = 2.07), watching TV with mother (OR = 1.96), no rule(s) limiting time for computer game usage (OR = 2.30), having multiple (OR = 2.99) EM devices in the bedroom and BMI (OR = 1.15) were associated with higher odds of being heavy EM user on a school day. Boys (OR = 2.35) and participants who usually watched TV at midday (OR = 2.91) and late at night (OR = 2.04) had higher odds of being a heavy EM user on the weekend. Conclusions: Efforts to modify children’s EM use should focus on a mix of intervention strategies that address patterns and reinforcement of TV viewing, household rules limiting screen time, and the presence of EM devices in the child’s bedroom. Language eng Field of Research 111706 Epidemiology Socio Economic Objective 920412 Preventive Medicine HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2011 Human Kinetics, Inc. Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30043875 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 27 Mar 2012, 13:05:17 EST Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 10:18:29 EST Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 10:30:03 EST Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 10:31:22 EST Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 10:32:23 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 13:19:43 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 18:32:10 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 43 times in TR Web of Science Cited 46 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 970 Abstract Views, 5 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 27 Mar 2012, 13:05:04 EST by Jane Moschetti