Objective To assess the prevalence of childhood television viewing in the urban area of Ma′anshan city and analyze the affecting factors. Methods Children were recruited from December 2016 to December 2017 in Ma’anshan Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, an open sedentary behavior questionnaire was used to collect the television viewing time of children aged 12 months and 18 months who underwent 4-2-1 physical examination, and social demographic characteristics, video exposure with parents and other information were also collected. Results The total television viewing revalence of children aged 12 months and 18 months was 63.2% and 89.4%, respectively, and child mean daily screen time was (15.0±25.3) minutes and (41.2±49.5) minutes, respectively.According to the Results of multivariate binary Logistic regression analysis, parents believed that children watching TV was beneficial to infants′ cognitive development, family TV was often played, parents accompany children to watch TV, and children were often controlled to watch TV, which were risk factors for improper video exposure of children aged 18 months, and the OR values were 3.15,6.30,7.64 and 6.57(P<0.05) respectively. Conclusions Television viewing of infants and toddlers is common in Ma ′anshan city.The beliefs and behavior of parents and the household media environment are the risk factors of children′s television viewing.Parents should be taught to lead by example and reduce family screen time to reduce the television viewing of children to promote healthy growth.
Key words
screen exposure /
television viewing /
infants /
toddlers /
Ma′anshan city
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