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Title: | Exploring mediation roles of child screen-viewing between parental factors and child overweight in Taiwan | Authors: | Lin, YC Tsai, MC Strong, C Hsieh, YP Lin, CY Lee, CSC |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Source: | International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020, v. 17, no. 6, 1878, p. 1-10 | Abstract: | Children’s screen-viewing behavior is influenced by parents’ own screen-viewing hours and the parental rules set for screen-viewing time. However, whether childhood obesity is associated with these three factors has not been widely investigated in Chinese populations. We examined the relationships between parental rules, parental screen-viewing, child screen-viewing and child overweight. Questionnaires were distributed to 1300 parents who had children studying in two elementary schools in an eastern Taiwanese City (Yi-Lan). We collected the data (the final response rate was 77.7%) on children’s health states, the length of screen-viewing time, and whether parental rules of screen-viewing time have been set (n = 1005). Models using structural equation modeling, with controlling of age, gender, and physical activity of the participants, were carried out, to examine the mediated effect of child screen-viewing. The results of model testing showed that child screen-viewing could be a mediator in the associations between parental rule and child overweight (parental rule: coefficient = −0.18, p < 0.001); and between parent screen-viewing and child overweight (parent screen-viewing: coefficient = 0.072, p < 0.001). These findings suggested that parental factors (rules and little screen viewing time) effectively decreased the level of children’s screen-viewing time, and the child screen-viewing time could mediate the association between parental factors and child overweight in the Chinese population. | Keywords: | Child Obesity Parent behavior Parental rule Screen-viewing |
Publisher: | Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) | Journal: | International journal of environmental research and public health | ISSN: | 1661-7827 | EISSN: | 1660-4601 | DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph17061878 | Rights: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication Lin Y-C, Tsai M-C, Strong C, Hsieh Y-P, Lin C-Y, Lee CSC. Exploring Mediation Roles of Child Screen-Viewing between Parental Factors and Child Overweight in Taiwan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(6):1878, is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17061878 |
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