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Home vs. bedroom media devices: socioeconomic disparities and association with childhood screen - and sleep-time
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Background: The literature has shown a widespread use of portable electronic devices
among children over the last years. This study aimed to identify the availability of
different media devices at home versus in children’s bedroom according to the
socioeconomic status (SES), and analyze the association between that availability and
children’s screen- and sleep-time on week and weekend days.
Methods: Data from 3 to 10 year-old children (n=8430) from a cross-sectional study
conducted in Portugal (2016/17) was used. Screen- and sleep-time, availability of media
devices, father and mother education (as a proxy measured of SES) were assessed via
questionnaire.
Results: Available devices at home was significantly more common among high-SES
families; while media devices in the bedroom were more frequent in low-SES families
(p<0.001). In preschool and elementary school-aged children, media devices in the
bedroom was associated with increase screen-time and shorter sleep per day. Also,
mobile devices in the bedroom were shown to exert similar, or even more, influence on
children’s screen- and sleep-time as television.
Conclusions: Further research is needed to explore the pathways by which different
electronic media negatively impacts on children’s sleep and screen-time and to develop
effective strategies to minimize device access at bedtime.
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Child Child, preschool Cross-sectional studies Humans Portugal Sleep Social class Television Video games
Contexto Educativo
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Elsevier