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Clin Exp Pediatr > Volume 67(12); 2024 |
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Factor | Study | Design | Subject age range, mean (SD) | No. | Country | Associated factors | Dependent variable | Statistical method | Result/main findings |
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Individual | Wijtzes et al. [18] (2013) | Cross-sectional | 3 Mo–4 yr: 48.2 (47.8–50.6) yr | 3,452 | Netherlands | Children's ethnicity | TV viewing time | Multiple regression | Children from ethnic minority groups watched more TV compared to native Dutch children, regardless of family |
Birken et al. [22] (2011) | Cross-sectional | 3 Yr | 157 | Australia | TV during meals | TV screen time | Simple linear regression | Eating lunch in front of the screen and 1 extra hour of parental screen time increased child weekend screen time by 78 and 12 min per day, respectively. | |
Parental factors | |||||||||
Del Pozo-Cruz et al. [15] (2019) | Longitudinal | 4–5 Yr | 3,974 | Australia | Demographic factors | Screen time | Latent growth mixture model | Increased screen time may be associated with female, indigenous background, non-English-speaking households, non-biological parent, higher household affluence, absence of siblings, parents with poor mental health in children. | |
8–9 Yr | |||||||||
Carson et al. [16] (2017) | Cross-sectional | 1–3 Yr: 19.0 (1.9) 2–9.9 Yr | 149 | Canada | Demographic characteristics | Parent report on watching time, play games on weekday and weekend days | Multiple lnear regression | Female, lower income and ethnic minority groups may be important targets for screen time interventions. | |
Poulain et al. [21] (2018) | Longitudinal | 2–6 Yr: baseline 3.81 (0.89) 2–9.9 yr; follow-up 4.83 (0.90) 2–9.9 yr | 527 | Germany | Emotional and behavioral, peer relationship problems | Screen time | Multiple linear regression | At baseline, peer relationship problems increased the likelihood of computer/Internet and mobile phone use at follow-up. | |
Multiple logistic regression | |||||||||
Chiu et al. [17] (2016) | Cohort | Baseline:18 mo | 18,577 | Taiwan | Demographic factor | TV viewing | Multinomial logistic regression | Boys, parental income, childcare arrangements, parental education, parental TV viewing time, and TV viewing restrictions for children are associated with children's TV viewing. | |
Follow-up: 5 yr | |||||||||
Familial | Wijtzes et al. [24] (2012) | Cross-sectional | Pregnancy to 4 yr: 48.2 (47.8–50.2) yr | 2,786 | Netherlands | Maternal educational level | TV screen time | Logistic regression | Maternal education level, parental viewing time is associated with preschoolers' television viewing time. |
Chandra et al. [37] (2016) | Cross-sectional | 18 Mo | 500 | Australia | Single-parenting Number of siblings | Screen time | Multivariable logistic regression | Significant associations were observed between over 2 hr of daily screen time and maternal single status, having 3 siblings, employed fathers, lack of outdoor equipment, and fewer than 5 weekly outings. | |
Father's employment | |||||||||
Ownership of outdoor activity equipment | |||||||||
Frequency of outings per week | |||||||||
Xu et al. [31] (2016) | Longitudinal | Pregnancy to 5 yr | 667 | Australia | Mother's screen time at baseline | Children's screen time across ages 2 to 5 yr | Mixed linear and logistic regression | Screen time during pregnancy and children's screen time at age 1 predict screen time from ages 2 to 5. | |
Child's screen time at age 1 | |||||||||
Iguacel et al. [36] (2017) | Longitudinal | 2 to <6 (43.5) Yr | 8,482 | Spain | Demographic factors | Screen time | Logistic mixed-effects analyses | Migrants and children with unemployed parents had longer screen time. | |
6 to<12 (56.5) Yr | |||||||||
2–9.9 Yr | |||||||||
Chen et al. [19] (2019) | Longitudinal | Pregnancy to 5.5 yr: 5.5 (0.1) yr | 547 | Singapore | Ethnicity | Screen time | Simple/Multiple logistic regression | Chinese ethnicity, younger maternal age and lower maternal TV and sleep time were associated with greater screen viewing. | |
2–9.9 Yr | |||||||||
Hinkley et al. [32] (2013) | Cross-sectional | 4 Yr: 4.54 (0.70) yr | 935 | Australia | Social variables | Physical environment | Compliance rate with screen time guidelines | Multinomial logistic regression | |
2–9.9 yr | |||||||||
Loprinzi et al. [29] (2012) | Cross-sectional | 2–5 Yr: 4.0 (0.1) yr | 164 | USA | Demographic factors | Screen time guideline adherence rate | Chi-square analysis | Children with higher parental education levels have a higher compliance rate with weekend electronic media use guidelines. | |
One-way ANOVA | |||||||||
Kılıç et al. [25] (2019) | Cross-sectional | 1–60 Mo | 422 | Turkey | Mobile device type, child's age, household income, parental education | Frequency of mobile media exposure, ownership | Descriptive statistics | Mothers' education levels are inversely related to children's tablet use. | |
Park et al. [35] (2018) | Cross-sectional | 2–5 Yr | 400 | South Korea | Maternal depression | Children's TV overuse | Logistic regression | Maternal depression is linked to children's TV viewing time, while a family income is associated with children's tablet PC usage time. | |
Yang-Huang et al. [26] (2017) | Chi-square 1-way ANOVA | 2–9 Yr: 2 yr: 24.4 (1.1) mo; 3 yr: 36.5 (1.1) mo; 4 yr: 48.5 (1.0) mo; 6 yr: 71.8 (4.8) mo; 9yr : 116.2 (3.4) mo | 3,561 | Netherlands | Mother's education level | Whether using TV for more than 1 hour per day | Generalized logistic mixed models | Lower maternal education levels associated with more screen time. | |
Family income | |||||||||
Emond et al. [38] (2018) | Cross-sectional | 2–5 Yr: 3.3 (1.1) yr | 385 | USA | Household chaos | Weekly screen use, use of screens | Adjusted linear and Poisson regression | Greater household chaos is associated with increased total screen use. | |
Lee et al. [43] (2018) | Cross-sectional | 1.6 Yr: 1.6 (0.2) yr | 193 | Canada | Parents and their interactions with the home environment | Screen time on weekdays and weekend days | Bayesian estimation in structural equation modeling | Higher parental screen time limiting practices was associated with lower screen time among toddlers. | |
Tang et al. [44] (2018) | Cross-sectional | 1.5–5 Yr: 3.65 (1.36) | 62 | USA | Monitoring and limiting screen time | Children’s total recreational screen time on weekday and weekend days | Linear regression using generalized estimating equations | Parents’ media parenting practices were associated with children’s screen time. | |
2–9.9 Yr | |||||||||
Pearson et al. [23] (2018) | Cross-sectional | 5–6 Yr: 5.58 (0.73) | 126 | UK | Parental screen time, parental income | Screen time | Multinomial logistic regression analyses | Correlates associated with clusters included parental income, eating meals at the TV, parental screen time and energy-dense snack food consumption, and home availability of snack foods. | |
2–9.9 Yr | |||||||||
Barber et al. [1] (2017) | Longitudinal, birth cohort | 0–3 Yr: 27.5 (5.74) | 1558 | UK | Parental factors | child’s TV time | Linear longitudinal multi-level models | Mothers’ own TV time, mothers’ attitudes toward child TV time and the time the TV is on in the home are modifiable factors. | |
2–9.9 Yr | |||||||||
Domoff et al. [14] (2017) | Longitudinal | 4–11 Yr: 7 (2) 2–9.9 yr | 220 | USA | Early parenting disciplinary, child emotionality | Background Mealtime TV viewing (3 typical dinnertime meals were video recorded by mothers over 1 week) | Regression analyses | Managing child negative emotionality using positive parenting strategies may reduce later child TV engagement. | |
Downing et al. [33] (2017) | Cohort | 3–5 Yr: 4.5 (0.7) yr | 1002 | Australia | Individual, social and physical environment correlates | Parent report on screen time on weekdays and weekend days | Multivariable linear regression analyses | Parental self-efficacy to limit screen time and screen time rules are inversely associated with screen time. | |
Maternal television viewing is positively associated with boys' screen time. | |||||||||
Määttä et al. [30] (2017) | Cross-sectional | 3–6 Yr | 864 | Finland | Parental norms and attitudes, parental education | screen time | The mediator models | Parents with higher education tend to limit children's screen time due to factors descriptive norms, reduced parental screen use, and stronger commitment to restricting screen time. | |
4.7 (0.89) yr | |||||||||
Matarma et al. [27] (2016) | Longitudinal | 1–3 Yr | 1,829 | Finland | Father’s sitting time, maternal education | Screen time | Linear and logistic regression analyses | Mother’s screen time habits and education seem to be associated with their children’s screen time. | |
Sanders et al. [45] (2016) | Cross-sectional | 3–7 Yr | 615 | USA | General and technology-related parenting | Screen time | Structural equation modeling | Technology-related parenting strategies was related to the child screen time. | |
Sanders et al. [52] (2016) | Cross-sectional | 3–7 Yr | 615 | USA | Parental perceptions of technology | Screen time | Structural equation modeling | Parental self-efficacy with technology is associated with children's screen time. | |
Sigmundová et al. [34] (2016) | Cross-sectional | 4–7 Yr: male: 5.58 (0.84) yr; female: 5.63 (0.86) yr | 194 | Czech Republic | Parents’ screen time | Child’s and parent’s screen time | Bivariate Pearson correlation | The screen time of parents and children showed a strong correlation. | |
Jago et al. [46] (2015) | Cross-sectional | 5–6 Yr: 6.0 (0.4) yr | 954 | UK | Parental self-efficacy | TV viewing, computer | Four-step regression approach | Parental self-efficacy to limit screen time mediated associations between parental control and screen viewing. | |
Miguel-Berges et al. [47] (2019) | Longitudinal | 3.5–5.5 Yr: baseline 4.74 (0.4) 2–9.9 yr; follow-up 5.72 (0.4) 2–9.9 yr | 4,836 | EU | Parental perception, attitudes, and knowledge | Screen time | Multilevel logistic regression model | Preschool children whose caregivers stated rules limiting their sedentary screen time were less likely to spend total screen time. | |
Certain and Kahn [28] (2002) | Cohort | 0–35 Mo | 3,556 | USA | Demographic factor | Hours of television per week-day | Maternal low education level is associated with children's television viewing time. | ||
Environmental | Feng et al. [49] (2011) | Cross-sectional | 5–9 Yr: 6.61 (0.889) Yr | 597 | USA | TV in the child’s bedroom | Daily watching TV/DVD | t-test, logistic regression | Children with TV in bedroom spent 93 hr more daily watching TV/DVD. |
Tandon et al. [39] (2011) | Cross-sectional | 9 Month, 2 yr age 4 or away 4.37 (0.01) yr | 8,950 | USA | Childcare Environment | Screen time | Multiple regression | Children in centers had the lowest screen time (3.2 hr) compared to children in parental care only (4.4 hr), home-based care (5.5 hr), and head start (4.2 hr). | |
Sanders et al. [40] (2015) | Longitudinal | 4–5 Yr | 4,983 | Australia | Presence of green Spaces near residence | Physical activity, TV Screen time | Multiple linear regression | For boys, a 10% increase in nearby green space is associated with a 2.3% reduction in weekend TV viewing time. | |
Wave 1: 4.2 (0.4) 2–9.9 Yr | Multiple logistic regression | ||||||||
Wave 5: 12.4 (0.5) 2–9.9 yr | |||||||||
Aggio et al. [41] (2015) | Cross-sectional | 5.9 Yr: 70.2 (0.5) yr | 3,586 | UK | Green space | Average weekly TV viewing time, use of computers | General linear models | Mother’s perceived distance from home to green/open spaces was associated with child’s TV time. | |
Sijtsma et al. [48] (2015) | Cohort | 3.4–4.4 Yr: 3.9 (0.1) 2–9.9 yr | 759 | German | TV in the bedroom | Total screen time on weekdays and weekend days, number of TV at home | Mediation model | A TV in the bedroom or more TV at home gave a higher screen time. |