OBJECTIVES Despite the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommending that electronic media be avoided in children under two years of age, screen use is common in infants and toddlers. The aims of this study were to determine how parenting style, infant temperament, and family type are associated with television viewing in two-year-old children. STUDY DESIGN Participants were from the Prev...

Mining thousands of viewing choices and millions of patterns, advertisers and TV networks identify household characteristics, tastes, and desires to create and deliver custom targeted advertising. THE emergence of the digital personal video recorder (PVR) is likely to coincide with profound changes in television viewing, as viewers use the technology to time-shift their viewing and skim over or...

From the Department of Forensic Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India Received: Nov. 11, 2014; Accepted: Jan. 13, 2015 Correspondence to: Dr. Tanuj Kanchan, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal University, India. State Highway 65, Madhav Nagar, Manipal, India. Tel.: 91‐9448252394; Fax: 91‐824‐2428183; E‐mail: tanuj.kanchan@ ...

OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence of obesity in Australian adults and to examine the associations of obesity with socioeconomic and lifestyle factors. DESIGN AusDiab, a cross-sectional study conducted between May 1999 and December 2000, involved participants from 42 randomly selected districts throughout Australia. PARTICIPANTS Of 20,347 eligible people aged > or = 25 years who completed ...

BACKGROUND Sedentary behaviour has been linked with a number of health outcomes. Preschool-aged children spend significant proportions of their day engaged in sedentary behaviours. Research into the correlates of sedentary behaviours in the preschool population is an emerging field, with most research being published since 2002. Reviews on correlates of sedentary behaviours which include presch...

OBJECTIVE To determine the television-, DVD-, and video-viewing habits of children younger than 2 years. DESIGN A telephone survey of 1009 parents of children aged 2 to 24 months. SETTING Parents in Minnesota and Washington state were surveyed. PARTICIPANTS A random sample of parents of children born in the previous 2 years was drawn from birth certificate records. Households in which Eng...

OBJECTIVE To test the independent effects of television viewing in children before age 3 years and at ages 3 to 5 years on several measures of cognitive outcomes at ages 6 and 7 years. DESIGN Using data from a nationally representative data set, we regressed 4 measures of cognitive development at ages 6 and 7 years on television viewing before age 3 years and at ages 3 to 5 years, controlling...

BACKGROUND Public health experts raise concerns about adolescents' and black youth's greater exposure to TV advertising for unhealthy foods and beverages compared with children and white youth. OBJECTIVES Examine how television-viewing patterns and rates of advertising during targeted programming contribute to this greater exposure. METHODS Nielsen panel data provided viewing times and amou...

OBJECTIVE To test the independent association of adult language input, television viewing, and adult-child conversations on language acquisition among infants and toddlers. METHODS Two hundred seventy-five families of children aged 2 to 48 months who were representative of the US census were enrolled in a cross-sectional study of the home language environment and child language development (p...

OBJECTIVE We examined the associations of television viewing time with fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and 2-h postchallenge plasma glucose (2-h PG) levels in Australian adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 8,357 adults aged > 35 years who were free from diagnosed diabetes and who attended a population-based cross-sectional study (Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study [AusDi...