Association of Video Game Use With Body Mass Index and Other Energy-Balance Behaviors in Children.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Childhood obesity is one of the biggest public health threats facing the UK, and video game use is considered a risk behavior for obesity among children. However, few studies have explored the prospective association between video game use and body mass index (BMI) or the potential mediators of this association.

Objectives

To investigate whether a longer-term association exists between video game use at a young age and BMI SD score in later years, independent of television use, and to ascertain whether this association is mediated by other energy-balance behaviors.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study is a secondary analysis of data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally representative sample of children who were born in the UK betwee

SUBMITTER: Goodman W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7136857 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature