- Title
- Cross-sectional associations between screen time and the selected lifestyle behaviors in adolescents
- Creator
- Fan, Huiying; Yan, Jin; Yang, Zhen; Liang, Kaixin; Chen, Sitong
- Relation
- Frontiers in Public Health Vol. 10, no. 932017
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.932017
- Publisher
- Frontiers Research Foundation
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Background: In adolescents, excessive screen time leads to many adverse health outcomes and is associated with a variety of lifestyle behaviors. This study was conducted to investigate the associations between the two types of screen time and a variety of lifestyle behaviors in American adolescents. Methods: Based on the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, this cross-sectional study was conducted. With the help of data collectors, participants self-reported screening time, lifestyle behaviors, and demographic data via well-validated tools. Results: 19% and 43.4% of the participants spent more than two hours a day watching television and using the computer, respectively, while the prevalence of physical inactivity and insufficient sleep was 75.1 and 74.4% respectively. Furthermore, 11.9, 7.3, 14.3, and 21.3% of the participants reported skipping fruits, vegetables, breakfast and milk, respectively. Moreover, the prevalence of alcohol and tobacco consumption and sexual activity was 26.8, 5.3, and 23.5% respectively. More than two hours of television time was significantly associated with high risks of fewer frequency for eating fruit (OR = 1.605, 95%CI: 1.308–1.970), vegetables (OR = 1.389, 95%CI: 1.029–1.873), and smoking (OR = 1.465, 95%CI: 1.088–1.972). Computer/video time for more than two hours was significantly associated with high risks of physical inactivity (OR = 1.724, 95%CI: 1.531–1.941), insufficient sleep (OR = 1.354, 95%CI: 1.151–1.592), and not eating fruit (OR = 1.434, 95%CI: 1.179–1.745). Conclusion: Increased screen time may be associated with specific unhealthy lifestyle behaviors in adolescents. Furthermore, the associations between different types of screen time and various lifestyle behaviors varied.
- Subject
- television watching; video; computer; multiple lifestyle; youth
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1487960
- Identifier
- uon:52305
- Identifier
- ISSN:2296-2565
- Rights
- © 2022 Fan, Yan, Yang, Liang and Chen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
- Language
- eng
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