Impact of television on children

Gupta, Rahul; Saini, Devendra; Acharya, Usha; N, Miglani

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“…Of these, nine were not included in the review because they involved experimental manipulations of sedentary behavior and physical activity, 40 involved interventions targeting additional sedentary behaviors, [41][42][43] were single-subject case studies, 44,45 measured only body mass, 46 or presented data previously published. 47 From the remaining 30 studies, data were available on 52 independent samples.…”

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“…7 TV viewing, video/computer game use and physical activity In total, 33 studies [11][12][13]17,18,21,25,[30][31][32]36,38,39,46,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66] were located that presented a measure of association between physical activity and TV viewing, playing video games or computer use. Nine studies were excluded from analyses either because they had serious design limitations, 46,50,51 presented insufficient data for meta-analytic synthesis, 11,12,54 presented data on composite measures of sedentary behavior 49,52 or reported on special populations. 36 The remaining [24] studies presented data on [41] independent samples (the unit of analysis) and were included in the final analyses.…”

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Relationships between media use, body fatness and physical activity in children and youth: a meta-analysis

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OBJECTIVE:To review the empirical evidence of associations between television (TV) viewing, video/computer game use and (a) body fatness, and (b) physical activity. DESIGN: Meta-analysis. METHOD: Published English-language studies were located from computerized literature searches, bibliographies of primary studies and narrative reviews, and manual searches of personal archives. Included studies presented at least one empirical association between TV viewing, video/computer game use and body fatness or physical activity among samples of children and youth aged 3-18 y. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: The mean sample-weighted corrected effect size (Pearson r). RESULTS: Based on data from 52 independent samples, the mean sample-weighted effect size between TV viewing and body fatness was 0.066 (95% CI ¼ 0.056-0.078; total N ¼ 44 707). The sample-weighted fully corrected effect size was 0.084. Based on data from six independent samples, the mean sample-weighted effect size between video/computer game use and body fatness was 0.070 (95% CI ¼ À0.048 to 0.188; total N ¼ 1722). The sample-weighted fully corrected effect size was 0.128. Based on data from 39 independent samples, the mean sample-weighted effect size between TV viewing and physical activity was À0.096 (95% CI ¼ À0.080 to À0.112; total N ¼ 141 505). The sample-weighted fully corrected effect size was À0.129. Based on data from 10 independent samples, the mean sample-weighted effect size between video/computer game use and physical activity was À0.104 (95% CI ¼ À0.080 to À0.128; total N ¼ 119 942). The sample-weighted fully corrected effect size was À0.141. CONCLUSION: A statistically significant relationship exists between TV viewing and body fatness among children and youth although it is likely to be too small to be of substantial clinical relevance. The relationship between TV viewing and physical activity is small but negative. The strength of these relationships remains virtually unchanged even after correcting for common sources of bias known to impact study outcomes. While the total amount of time per day engaged in sedentary behavior is inevitably prohibitive of physical activity, media-based inactivity may be unfairly implicated in recent epidemiologic trends of overweight and obesity among children and youth. Relationships between sedentary behavior and health are unlikely to be explained using single markers of inactivity, such as TV viewing or video/computer game use.

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“…In their sample, watching TV or playing computer games after 20.00 h was also related to less sleep duration. Other studies found many adverse effects of television viewing on children such as sleep disorders (Johnson et al, 2004;Owens et al, 1999;Tynjala et al, 1993;van den Bulch, 2004) and poor sleep habits (Gupta et al, 1994). Cross-sectional studies found that television/videotape viewing was associated with late bedtimes and sleep disturbances among school-aged children and adolescents (Owens et al, 1999;Tynjala et al, 1993).…”

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Long sleep duration and childhood overweight/obesity and body fat

Padez

Mourão

Moreira

et al. 2009

American J Hum Biol

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To assess the association between short sleep duration and overweight/obesity and body fat (BF) and to identify correlates of short sleep duration in a sample of Portuguese children. A cross-sectional study of children 7-9 years (n = 4511) was performed between October 2002 and June 2003. Weight, height, and skinfolds were measured, and parents filled out a questionnaire about family characteristics as well as sleep duration. The prevalence of overweight/obesity and BF (%) both decreased by long sleep duration. After adjusted for confounders, the odds ratio (OR) for overweight/obesity and sleep duration were as follows: reference >11 h/d; 10-11 h/d, OR: 1.3; confidence interval (CI):1.26, 1.33; 9-10 h/d, OR: 1.16; CI: 1.13, 1.19; and <9 h, OR: 3.22; CI: 3.11, 3.32. Children whose parents had a low educational level slept less time during each night than children whose parents had a higher educational level; children who spent more time watching television slept less time than those who watched less television, and those children engaged in physical activity slept more time each night than sedentary children. Our results showed an inverse relationship between long sleep duration and overweight/obesity prevalence as well as with body fat, and these findings are important because sleep duration is a potentially modifiable risk factor that could be important to consider in the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity.

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“…Television-viewing habits have been reported to be associated with a variety of significant behavioral consequences, including obesity and poor eating habits (Locard et al 1992), decreased physical activity and physical fitness (Durant 1994), impaired academic performance (Gupta et al 1994), aggressive behavior (Gadow and Sprafkin 1989), and less opportunity for social interaction (Robinson 1972). Extensive television viewing habit has also been reported to be associated with increased restlessness and difficulty in falling or staying asleep (Owens et al 1999).…”

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Impact of television on sleep habits

Nag

Pradhan

2012

Biological Rhythm Research

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Television is the most widespread communication system of modern society, however, excessive television viewing have long-lasting adverse effects on health. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of television on sleep behavior of human population of Chhattisgarh, India. The study have been conducted on 2105 individuals from remote (without electricity and television), rural, and urban areas. The rural population was further divided in two groups (i) people having electrical facility but no television and (ii) people living in houses with electricity and television. In urban area, all the subjects had electricity and television. Hours of television viewing and different sleep parameters were evaluated with the help of questionnaire. Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) was quantified by Epworth Sleepiness Scale. People living in rural and urban area having access to television reported shorter sleep duration with change in sleepwake time and higher level of sleepiness during daytime as compared to people living with only electrical facility. On the other hand, the sleep duration of the people living in remote area is significantly higher with lowest EDS (p 5 0.01). It was also noticed that the time spent for viewing television decreases with age, and increase in EDS is associated with the hours of television viewing (p 5 0.01). Further, television was found to increase sleep dissatisfaction with delayed sleepwake time (p 5 0.01). From the findings of the present study, it can be safely concluded that sleep impairment is increasing in general population due to television watching.

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Impact of television on children

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Relationships between media use, body fatness and physical activity in children and youth: a meta-analysis

Relationships between media use, body fatness and physical activity in children and youth: a meta-analysis

Long sleep duration and childhood overweight/obesity and body fat

Impact of television on sleep habits

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