Center on Media and Child Health

Research Wrap-Up: Recently Published Studies-October 27

New published studies on children, media, and health which explore a range of topics:

Dumith, S.C., Hallal, P.C., Menezes, A.M., & Araújo, C.L. (2010). Sedentary behavior in adolescents: The 11-year follow-up of the 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study. Cad Saude Publica, 26(10),1928-1936. FREE ARTICLE

• The authors found that these 11-year-olds spent extensive time at TV viewing, videogames, and the computer. Prevalence of sedentary behavior was 79.7% and showed a positive association with socioeconomic level and nutritional status and a negative association with well-being.

Moody,A.K.; Justice, L.M.; & Cabell, S.Q. (2010). Electronic versus traditional storybooks: Relative influence on preschool children’s engagement and communication. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 10(3), 294-313.

• Findings showed that when comparing media, children displayed higher levels of persistence during the adult led e-storybook compared to the adult led traditional storybook condition. However, children produced more communicative initiations during the adult led traditional storybook condition.

Suh, S.; Kim,   S.W.; & Kim, N.J. (2010). Effectiveness of MMORPG-based instruction in elementary English education in Korea. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26(5), 370–378.

• The results of the study indicated that students studying English utilizing online role-playing games showed higher scores in areas of listening, reading, and writing than those who attended face-to-face instruction classes.

Terry-McElrath, Y.M., Emery, S., Szczypka, G., & Johnston, L.D. (2010). Potential exposure to anti-drug advertising and drug-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors among United States youth, 1995-2006. Addict Behav. Available online Oct 7.

• This study revealed that substance use outcomes were significantly related to anti-drug advertising. The findings differed markedly between middle and high school students.

Yamada-Rice, D. (2010). Beyond words: An enquiry into children’s home visual communication practices
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 10(3), 341-363.

• The researcher looked at the role of visual and digital images in a group of four-year-olds’ out-of-school lives and found this multilingual and ethnically diverse group of children, to be using a wide range of media, including cameras, television, DVD, drawing, websites, picture books and comics.

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Research Wrap-Up: Recently Published Studies-October 21

New published studies on children, media, and health which explore a range of topics:

Fang, F.;  Schinke, S. P.;  & Cole, K. (2010). Preventing substance use among early Asian–American adolescent girls: Initial evaluation of a Web-based, mother–daughter program. Journal of Adolescent Health, 47(5), 529-532.

• A family-oriented, web-based substance use prevention program was efficacious in preventing substance use behavior among early Asian–American adolescent girls.

Mössle, T.; Kleimann, M.; Rehbein, F.; & Pfeiffer, C.(2010). Media use and school achievement--boys at risk? Br J Dev Psychol. 28(Pt 3), 699-725.

• This study found that the more time students, particularly boys, spend on consuming media and the more violent its contents are, the worse are their marks at school, even when controlling for vital factors such as family, educational, or immigrant background.

Page, A.S.;  Cooper,  A.R.,  Griew, P.; &  Jago, R. (2010). Children's screen viewing is related to psychological difficulties irrespective of physical activity. Pediatrics, Published online October 11.

• This study found that the greater television and computer use were related to higher psychological difficulty scores in children.

Oates, C.J.; & Newman, N.(2010). Food on young children's television in the UK. Young Consumers,    11( 3),160-169.

• The study showed a high incidence of food across the different kinds of output and across the four channels. In programmes, food mentions were skewed towards healthy rather than unhealthy foods. The most frequent categories of food were fruit and vegetables, desserts, and grains.

Te Velde, S.J., van der Horst, K., Oenema, A., Timperio, A., Crawford, D.; & Brug, J. (2010). Parental and home influences on adolescents' TV viewing: A mediation analysis. Int J Pediatr Obes, available online Sep 30.

• The authors found that significant overall positive associations were found for the presence of a TV in the bedroom and parental modelling with self-reported TV viewing.They argue that home and family environmental predictors of TV time among adolescents may be strongly mediated by habit strength and other personal factors.

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Research Toolbox: Locating Health and Medical Information Guide

Looking for reliable health and medical information? The Library of Congress Science Reference Services offers great reference guides available through the Internet. The guide Locating Health and Medical Information-Science Reference Guide No. 34 compiles a list of sources (print and online) used to answer questions related to health and medicine in the Science Reading Room at the Library of Congress.

For books which are frequently updated, the edition number and year are in parentheses, so you should always check for a later edition. Many of these books, journals and newsletters can be found in public or university libraries. Ask your local librarian about them or for suggestions of materials more appropriate to your search.

Follow the links to learn more:

• Safe Searching
• Information about Doctors
• Medical & Health Information
• Dictionaries, Abbreviations, Syndromes, Eponyms
• Information on Drugs
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Wellness, Nutrition
• Hospitals, HMOs, Nursing homes
• Magazines, Newsletters
• Selected Web Sites
• Resources For Online Books, Journals & Articles

 

 

Research Wrap-Up: Recently Published Studies-October 6

New published studies on children, media, and health which explore a range of topics:

Cauwenberge,  A. V.; d'Haenens, L. & Beentjes, H. (2010). Emerging consumption patterns among young people of traditional and Internet news platforms in the Low Countries. Observatorio, 4(3). FREE ARTICLE

• The authors found that the use of television news enhanced the use of online news and vice versa. These findings confirm young people’s complementary use of traditional and online news platforms.

de Gouw, L.; Klepp, K.I. ; Vignerová, J.; Lien, N.; Steenhuis, I.H.; & Wind, M. (2010). Associations between diet and (in)activity behaviours with overweight and obesity among 10-18-year-old Czech Republic adolescents. Public Health Nutr., 13(10A),1701-1707.

• The authors found that the highest prevalence of being overweight or obese was found among boys and younger adolescents. Boys were more physically active, watched more television (TV) and used the computer more often than did girls. Watching TV more than 7 h a week was positively associated with being overweight/obese in 15-18-year-old girls, and was found to be negatively associated in boys of the same age group.

Lam, L.T. & Peng, Z-W. (2010). Effect of pathological use of the Internet on adolescent mental health: A prospective study. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med., 164(10),901-906.

• The authors found that  the relative risk of depression for young people who used the Internet pathologically was about 2 1/2 times  that of those who did not exhibit the targeted pathological internet use behaviors.

Lin, W.-Y., P. Hope Cheong, et al. (2010). Becoming citizens: Youths’ civic uses of new media in five digital cities in East Asia. Journal of Adolescent Research, 25(6),839-857.

• The study results suggest that the Internet may facilitate citizenship among Asian youths although entertainment-related activities such as downloading music or playing games remain the most popular activities online.

Moseley, K.L.; Freed, G.L.; & Goold, S.D. (2010). Which sources of child health advice do parents follow? Clin Pediatr, Available online Sep 13.

• The authors found that pediatrician advice was more completely followed than other sources with mothers a distant second. Although 96% of parents used the Internet to find child health information, few followed most of the advice found there. White parents were 3 times more likely than African Americans to follow advice from television.

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