Active and Sedentary Video Game Time

Abstract

This study used survey methodology to measure opinions of 13- to 15-year-olds (N = 176) about sedentary and active video games and the relative amount of time spent with those games, and evaluated correlations between time spent with those two types of games and the body mass index (BMI) of the respondent. Results showed no evidence of any correlation between BMI and relative time devoted to video game usage by type of game (active versus sedentary), nor any support for a correspondence between overall levels of time spent with video games and BMI. Yet, the data did point to a nonlinear association in which those who devoted more than 50% of the total time they spend with video games on sedentary games had a higher BMI than those who spent less than 50% of their video gaming time with sedentary games. Important gender differences also emerged in the adolescents’ opinions of active versus sedentary games.

Video games and their associations with physical health: a scoping review

“…26 Finally, the different studies involved participants from various countries or regions of the world (see table 2), as six studies (50%) were conducted in Europe, 27-29 32 33 36 five (42%) in North America 25 26 30 34 35 and one (8%) in South America. 31 Finally, seven studies (58%) had a large number of participants (more than 500), 25 27 28 30-33 two had an intermediate number of participants (100-499) 34 35 and three had a low number of participants (less than 100). 26 29 36…”

“…Five studies investigated BMI, 25 29 30 33 35 three of them having a low risk of bias. Two low risk of bias studies 29 30 conducted in teenagers and adult populations found a moderate association between gaming and BMI, one low risk of bias study 33 found a weak association between gaming and BMI, while one low risk of bias study 35 found no association in teenagers. Based on these studies and because of the heterogeneity of studied populations, we conclude that there is preliminary evidence that increasing hours of video game playing is associated with increased BMI in adults only.…”

“…After the full-text reading stage of our scoping review, the list of articles was considerably shortened and included eleven peer-reviewed articles gathered by the search and one article suggested by an expert (<1%) that were retained for further analyses (see figure 1). Of these 12 studies, 10 (83%) had used a cross-sectional design, [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] one (8%) had a longitudinal design 34 35 and one (8%) was an experimental randomised cross-over study. 36 Five studies were published between 2005 and 2010, 25 30 31 34 while the remaining seven studies were published after 2010 (see table 1).…”

“…The eleven observational studies [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] and one experimental study 36 were assessed for quality. All observational studies had issues regarding detection bias, mostly because homemade questionnaires or non-validated protocols were used to measure outcomes.…”

Affecting Factors and the Intervention of Internet Gaming Addiction for Adolescence

“…)；还会影响玩家的身体健康，如造成幻听，手腕疼痛，颈部疼痛，腕 部综合征，影响睡眠，导致肥胖 (Scharrer & Zeller, 2014;Turel, Romashkin, & Morrison, 2016;Williams, Yee, & Caplan, 2008;Wolfe et al, 2014 …”