TV Watch – Journal Search

Douglas Grunwald, MSIII 09/09/2009

Search Terms: Television, TV, Viewing, Infants, Children, Adolescents, Teens, Screen Time

Search Text: Pubmed

Concepts: Television and Obesity, Total Energy Expenditure, Eating Habits, Aggression, Language Delay

Journals: 10/673 (2004-2009)

Reviews: 2/59 (2007-2009)

Journals

Association between media use and health in US children. Russ, SA et al. Acad Pediatr 2009 Jul 8 [Epub ahead of print].

CONCLUSIONS: TV/video use is associated with a broader range of negative physical and social-emotional health attributes than computer use. Associations between media use and health are modest, but persistent at the population level. TV/video use reduction strategies may lead to improved physical and social-emotional population health. However, reductions in TV viewing may have little effect on overweight/obesity in black or Hispanic children. Mechanisms underlying observed health associations need further study.

A preliminary study on the relationship between characteristics of TV content and delayed speech development in young children. Okuma K et al. Infant Behav Dev. 2009 Jun;32(3):312-21.

CONCLUSION: Habitual television/video viewing with characteristics that are not apt to elicit parent-child communication for long hours may affect delayed language development in young children.

Psychological distress, television viewing, and physical activity in children aged 4 to 12 years. Hamer M et al. Pediatrics. 2009 May;123(5):1263-8.

CONCLUSION: Higher levels of television and screen entertainment time and low physical activity levels interact to increase psychological distress in young children.

Association of duration of television viewing in early childhood with the subsequent development of asthma. Sherriff A et al. Thorax. 2009 Apr;64(4):321-5.

CONCLUSION: Longer duration of TV viewing in children with no symptoms of wheeze at 3.5 years of age was associated with the development of asthma in later childhood.

Television viewing in infancy and child cognition at 3 years of age in a US cohort. Schmidt ME et al. Pediatrics 2009 Mar;123(3):e370-5.

CONCLUSION: Television viewing in infancy does not seem to be associated with language or visual motor skills at 3 years of age.

Increased television viewing is associated with elevated body fatness but not with lower total energy expenditure in children. Jackson DM et al. Am J Clin Nutr 2009 Apr;89(4):1031-6.

CONCLUSIONS: Preschool children who watch more TV are fatter and are less active, and activity influences TEE. However, despite TV viewing being linked to lower physical activity, the relation between TV viewing and fatness is not mediated by physical activity. The results suggest that a relation between TV viewing and fatness is more likely to be due to an effect on food intake.

Association between television viewing and poor diet quality in young children. Miller SA et al. Int J Pediatr Obes 2008;3(3):168-76.

CONCLUSIONS: Among 3-year-olds, more TV viewing is associated with adverse dietary practices. Interventions to reduce TV viewing in this age group may lead to improved diet quality.

Is aggression in children with behavioral and emotional difficulties associated with television viewing and video game playing? A systematic review. Mitrofan O et al. Child Care Health Dev. 2009 Jan;35(1):5-15.

CONCLUSION: This systematic review found insufficient, contradictory and methodologically flawed evidence on the association between television viewing and video game playing and aggression in children and young people with behavioural and emotional difficulties. If public health advice is to be evidence-based, good quality research is needed.

Television viewing, computer use, and total screen time in Canadian youth. Mark AE et al. Pediatr Child Health 2006 Nov;11(9):595-9.

CONCLUSION: Fewer than 20% of Canadian youth in grades 6 to 10 met the total screen time guidelines, suggesting that increased public health interventions are needed to reduce the number of leisure time hours that Canadian youth spend watching television and using the computer.

Well-child visits in the video age: pediatricians and the American Academy of Pediatrics' guidelines for children's media use. Gentile, D et al. Pediatrics. 2004 November; 114(5): 1235–1241.

CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that the efforts of the AAP in reaching pediatricians have been largely successful, with the majority of pediatricians in Minnesota being aware of and agreeing with the 3 major recommendations suggested by the AAP policy statement on children, adolescents, and television. However, implementation of the recommendations could be improved, especially because pediatricians usually think that the recommendations are at least a little effective when made. Strategies for overcoming barriers to making recommendations need to be addressed, including the sense of futility in affecting media use that some pediatricians may feel.

Reviews

Measurement of television viewing in children and adolescents: a systematic review. Bryant MJ et al. Obes Rev. 2007 May;8(3):197-209. Review.

The effects of infant media usage: what do we know and what should we learn? Christakis DA. Acta Paediatr 2009 Jan;98(1):8-16. Review.