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Concordance of Child and Parent Reports of Children's Screen Media Use.

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Wood, CT; Skinner, AC; Brown, JD; Brown, CL; Howard, JB; Steiner, MJ; Perrin, AJ; Levine, C; Ravanbakht, SN; Perrin, EM
Published in: Acad Pediatr
July 2019

OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the concordance of parent and child reports of children's media consumption, even though parents are often asked to report for their children in clinical care settings. Our objective was to understand how parent and child reports of children's media consumption differ in an era of changing screen media consumption via personal devices. METHODS: As part of a larger study about the reception of health-related cues from children's media, children ages 9 to 11 years (N = 114) and their parents independently completed identical questionnaires about specific media use and health behaviors. To examine concordance between child and parent reports of children's screen media use, we calculated the mean number of minutes per day and proportions reported by the child and parent and assessed concordance with t-tests and chi-square tests. RESULTS: On a typical day, children reported nearly an hour each of video and app game use, computer use, and television exposure. Overall, child and parent reports were similar, usually within 10 minutes of each other; however, among 3 measures of TV use, parents consistently reported less TV exposure than children. There was significant discordance in the percentages of parents and children reporting the presence of a TV in the child's room. CONCLUSIONS: Parent and child reports of children's media use were generally concordant; however, there were important disagreements, such as TV use in the child's room and during meals. We discuss possible causes of discrepancies and implications.

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Acad Pediatr

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1876-2867

Publication Date

July 2019

Volume

19

Issue

5

Start / End Page

529 / 533

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Video Games
  • Television
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Social Media
  • Screen Time
  • Pediatrics
  • Parents
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Mobile Applications
  • Male
 

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Wood, C. T., Skinner, A. C., Brown, J. D., Brown, C. L., Howard, J. B., Steiner, M. J., … Perrin, E. M. (2019). Concordance of Child and Parent Reports of Children's Screen Media Use. Acad Pediatr, 19(5), 529–533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2019.04.002
Wood, Charles T., Asheley Cockrell Skinner, Jane D. Brown, Callie L. Brown, Janna B. Howard, Michael J. Steiner, Andrew J. Perrin, Cary Levine, Sophie N. Ravanbakht, and Eliana M. Perrin. “Concordance of Child and Parent Reports of Children's Screen Media Use.Acad Pediatr 19, no. 5 (July 2019): 529–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2019.04.002.
Wood CT, Skinner AC, Brown JD, Brown CL, Howard JB, Steiner MJ, et al. Concordance of Child and Parent Reports of Children's Screen Media Use. Acad Pediatr. 2019 Jul;19(5):529–33.
Wood, Charles T., et al. “Concordance of Child and Parent Reports of Children's Screen Media Use.Acad Pediatr, vol. 19, no. 5, July 2019, pp. 529–33. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.acap.2019.04.002.
Wood CT, Skinner AC, Brown JD, Brown CL, Howard JB, Steiner MJ, Perrin AJ, Levine C, Ravanbakht SN, Perrin EM. Concordance of Child and Parent Reports of Children's Screen Media Use. Acad Pediatr. 2019 Jul;19(5):529–533.
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Published In

Acad Pediatr

DOI

EISSN

1876-2867

Publication Date

July 2019

Volume

19

Issue

5

Start / End Page

529 / 533

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Video Games
  • Television
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Social Media
  • Screen Time
  • Pediatrics
  • Parents
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Mobile Applications
  • Male