ABSTRACT Motivations for watching television were compared for 128 hearing and 178 hearing impaired freshtnan students at a technical college. The questionnaire consisted of 31 elevision viewing motivation items, a list of program titles -* frequency and enjoyment information, attitudinal statements, and demographic items. Ss reported the amount of time they watched TV on an average daily basis...

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...

We have constructed a new indirect ophthalmoscope. This instrument has a T-shaped housing composed of an illuminating tube and a viewing tube. A fiberoptic light source provides illumination. The inverted aerial image of the fundus coincides with the plane of the viewing window of the housing. This unit can be easily connected to a television camera for television ophthalmoscopy or to an image ...

While childhood obesity has been linked to television (TV) viewing, specific mechanisms are not well understood. Obesity related to TV viewing might plausibly be related to decreased physical activity, increased food intake, reductions in metabolic rate, or combinations of these. The current investigation sought to ascertain the metabolic effects of quiet rest, listening to a story, watching a ...

AIMS To assess the rates of violence in nursery rhymes compared to pre-watershed television viewing. METHODS Data regarding television viewing habits, and the amount of violence on British television, were obtained from Ofcom. A compilation of nursery rhymes was examined for episodes of violence by three of the researchers. Each nursery rhyme was analysed by number and type of episode. They w...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the amount, type, and patterns of television viewing predict the onset or the persistence of externalizing problems in preschool children. DESIGN Longitudinal study of a prospective population-based cohort in the Netherlands. SETTING Parents reported time of television exposure and type of programs watched by children. Externalizing problems were assessed usin...

television viewing (tv) is associated with an in-creased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular dis-eases, and all-cause mortality (1). in particular, ex-cessive tv viewing was found to be more preva-lent among older adults aged over 55 years than among younger age groups (2). moreover, it has been emphasized the importance of identifying at-risk populations with excessive tv viewing time and ...

OBJECTIVE Children's letters to Father Christmas provide an opportunity to use naturalistic methods to investigate the influence of television advertising. METHODS This study investigates the number of toy requests in the letters of children aged between 6 and 8 (n = 98) in relation to their television viewing and the frequency of product advertisements prior to Christmas. Seventy-six hours o...

This paper presents the results of a research study into blind and partially sighted peoples accessibility of broadcast television, drawing out implications for the design of iTV, in terms of the expectations and requirements for enhanced television viewing.