TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Televisions in the Bedrooms of Racial/Ethnic Minority Children: How Did They Get There and How Do We Get Them Out?
JO  - Clinical pediatrics
A1  - Hohman, Katherine H.
A1  - Taveras, Elsie M.
A1  - Sonneville, Kendrin
A1  - Gortmaker, Steven L.
A1  - Price, Sarah
SP  - 715
EP  - 719
VL  - 48
IS  - 7
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 0009-9228
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0009922809335667
ID  - ref1
ER  -