@article{ref1,
title="Televisions in the Bedrooms of Racial/Ethnic Minority Children: How Did They Get There and How Do We Get Them Out?",
journal="Clinical pediatrics",
year="2009",
author="Hohman, Katherine H. and Taveras, Elsie M. and Sonneville, Kendrin and Gortmaker, Steven L. and Price, Sarah",
volume="48",
number="7",
pages="715-719",
abstract="The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of TVs in the bedrooms of an urban, largely racial/ethnic minority population of children and parents’ reasons for putting the TV in their child’s room. The authors surveyed 200 parents of children age 2 to 13 years in a primary care clinic; 57% of the children were non-Hispanic black, 33% were Hispanic. Sixty-seven percent of all children had a TV in the room where they slept; high rates of TVs were present in bedrooms of black (70%) and Hispanic (74%) children compared with white children (22%). The top 3 reasons parents cited for putting a TV in the room where their child sleeps were (a) to keep the child occupied so that the parent could do other things around the house, ( b) to help the child sleep, and (c) to free up the other TVs so that other family members could watch their shows.<p />",
language="",
issn="0009-9228",
doi="10.1177/0009922809335667",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0009922809335667"
}