Exploring parents' screen-viewing behaviours and sedentary time in association with their attitudes toward their young child's screen-viewing.

ABSTRACT: Sedentary time and screen-viewing (SV) are associated with chronic disease risk in adults. Parent and child sedentary time and SV are associated. Parents influence children's SV through parenting styles and role modelling. Understanding whether parents' attitudes toward child SV are associated with their own SV and sedentary time will aid development of family interventions to reduce sedentary behaviours. Cross-sectional data with 809 parents from Bristol, UK were collected in 2012-2013 and analysed in 2016. Parental total sedentary time was derived from accelerometer data. Parents self-reported daily television viewing, use of computers, games consoles, and smartphone/tablets (none, 1-59 min, 1-2 h, > 2 h) and attitudes toward child SV. Adjusted linear and logistic regression models were

SUBMITTER: Solomon-Moore E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5503884 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature