Association of Parental and Contextual Stressors With Child Screen Exposure and Child Screen Exposure Combined With Feeding.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Parents may use screen exposure or screen exposure combined with feeding for infants and toddlers to alleviate their own stress.

Objective

To evaluate the association of individual and contextual stressors with child screen exposure (CSE) and CSE combined with feeding (CSE+F) in children aged 7 to 18 months as measured by parent-reported use and variation in quantity of CSE and CSE+F.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional, population-based study drew parent-child participants from TARGet Kids, a network of primary health care research settings throughout Toronto, Ontario, Canada, between November 1, 2011, and July 31, 2018. The included children were aged 7 to 18 months. Exclusion criteria were health conditions affecting growth, acute cond

SUBMITTER: Tombeau Cost K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12520712 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature