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Televisions in the bedrooms of racial/ethnic minority children: how did they get there and how do we get them out?
- Source :
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Clinical pediatrics [Clin Pediatr (Phila)] 2009 Sep; Vol. 48 (7), pp. 715-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2009 May 06. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of TVs in the bedrooms of an urban, largely racial/ethnic minority population of children and parents' reasons for putting the TV in their child's room. The authors surveyed 200 parents of children age 2 to 13 years in a primary care clinic; 57% of the children were non-Hispanic black, 33% were Hispanic. Sixty-seven percent of all children had a TV in the room where they slept; high rates of TVs were present in bedrooms of black (70%) and Hispanic (74%) children compared with white children (22%). The top 3 reasons parents cited for putting a TV in the room where their child sleeps were (a) to keep the child occupied so that the parent could do other things around the house, ( b) to help the child sleep, and (c) to free up the other TVs so that other family members could watch their shows.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Black or African American statistics & numerical data
Boston epidemiology
Child Behavior ethnology
Child, Preschool
Female
Health Surveys
Hispanic or Latino statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
White People statistics & numerical data
Parent-Child Relations
Parenting ethnology
Parents
Self Efficacy
Television statistics & numerical data
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1938-2707
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Clinical pediatrics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19420181
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0009922809335667