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Screen-time during the after-school period: A contextual perspective
Sedentary screen-time is an increasingly prevalent behaviour, associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. Sedentary time and screen-use increase during adolescence, making this age group a prime target for behaviour change interventions. Better understanding the context in which sedentary sc...
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| author | Emma Haycraft Lauren Sherar Paula Griffiths Stuart Biddle Natalie Pearson |
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| description | Sedentary screen-time is an increasingly prevalent behaviour, associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. Sedentary time and screen-use increase during adolescence, making this age group a prime target for behaviour change interventions. Better understanding the context in which sedentary screen-behaviours occur is important for ensuring future interventions have maximum impact. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of adolescents’ sedentary screen-time in the after-school and weekday evening periods, and to examine associations between contextual factors (location within the home and who they were with) and after-school/evening screen-time. Time that UK adolescents (N=204, aged 11 or 12 years, 61.4% girls) spent using various screens was measured using a detailed three-day time-use diary completed at home. Adolescents reported the start and end time for each screen-based activity, where they were, and who they were with. Weekday (Monday-Friday) data were analysed with a focus on the after-school (3-6pm) and evening periods (6-10.45pm). Young adolescents spend around a third of their weekday evening leisure-time using screens, with boys engaging in slightly more screen-use than girls. The majority of after-school and evening time at home was spent with family or siblings, with less than 1% spent with friends. Adolescents who spent more time alone after school reported greater screen-use. Greater time spent at home, in the lounge (living room) or bedroom was associated with greater screen-use. These findings highlight the value of devising family-based health-promotion interventions which target after-school/leisure-time screen-use in an effort to reduce young adolescents’ sedentary recreational screen-time behaviours. |
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| spelling | rr-article-122409622020-05-08T00:00:00Z Screen-time during the after-school period: A contextual perspective Emma Haycraft (1255731) Lauren Sherar (1250292) Paula Griffiths (1254669) Stuart Biddle (1256322) Natalie Pearson (1255488) Sedentary behaviour Television viewing Screen-use Adolescents Behaviour change Health promotion Sedentary screen-time is an increasingly prevalent behaviour, associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. Sedentary time and screen-use increase during adolescence, making this age group a prime target for behaviour change interventions. Better understanding the context in which sedentary screen-behaviours occur is important for ensuring future interventions have maximum impact. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of adolescents’ sedentary screen-time in the after-school and weekday evening periods, and to examine associations between contextual factors (location within the home and who they were with) and after-school/evening screen-time. Time that UK adolescents (N=204, aged 11 or 12 years, 61.4% girls) spent using various screens was measured using a detailed three-day time-use diary completed at home. Adolescents reported the start and end time for each screen-based activity, where they were, and who they were with. Weekday (Monday-Friday) data were analysed with a focus on the after-school (3-6pm) and evening periods (6-10.45pm). Young adolescents spend around a third of their weekday evening leisure-time using screens, with boys engaging in slightly more screen-use than girls. The majority of after-school and evening time at home was spent with family or siblings, with less than 1% spent with friends. Adolescents who spent more time alone after school reported greater screen-use. Greater time spent at home, in the lounge (living room) or bedroom was associated with greater screen-use. These findings highlight the value of devising family-based health-promotion interventions which target after-school/leisure-time screen-use in an effort to reduce young adolescents’ sedentary recreational screen-time behaviours. 2020-05-08T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/12240962.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Screen-time_during_the_after-school_period_A_contextual_perspective/12240962 CC BY 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Sedentary behaviour Television viewing Screen-use Adolescents Behaviour change Health promotion Emma Haycraft Lauren Sherar Paula Griffiths Stuart Biddle Natalie Pearson Screen-time during the after-school period: A contextual perspective |
| title | Screen-time during the after-school period: A contextual perspective |
| title_full | Screen-time during the after-school period: A contextual perspective |
| title_fullStr | Screen-time during the after-school period: A contextual perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Screen-time during the after-school period: A contextual perspective |
| title_short | Screen-time during the after-school period: A contextual perspective |
| title_sort | screen-time during the after-school period: a contextual perspective |
| topic | Sedentary behaviour Television viewing Screen-use Adolescents Behaviour change Health promotion |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/12240962.v1 |