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Study: African-American & Lower Income Kids Likely to Spend More Time in Front of a TV

By pete_gallagher

Results of a recent study appear to show that one in four children exceed the recommended time spent in front of a screen (watching TV and movies or playing videogames) per day.

Influence of Limit-Setting and Participation in Physical Activity on Youth Screen Time (PDF) appears in this month's issue of Pediatrics and was authored by Susan Carlson, Janet Fulton, Sarah Lee, John Foley, Carrie Heitzler and Marian Huhman. The study was based around a recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) which advised that children over two years of age should be limited to 'no more' than one or two hours of 'quality programming' per day.

The survey polled 7,415 youth between the ages of nine and fifteen years old and found that 'Odds that children would exceed recommended screen-time limits were positively associated with age and black race/ethnicity and negatively associated with income level.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).