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Screen time and physical violence in 10 to 16-year-old Canadian youth
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- Source Department of Community Medicine, NRS Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. amritasmnt@yahoo.co.in Abstract
- Using interviews and peer pairs to better understand how school environments affect young childrens playground physical activity levels: a qualitative study.
- Bullying and peer victimisation in adolescent girls with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Screen time and physical violence in 10 to 16-year-old Canadian youth.Janssen I, Boyce WF, Pickett W. SourceSchool of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada. ian.janssen@queensu.ca AbstractOBJECTIVES:To examine the independent associations between television, computer, and video game use with physical violence in youth. METHODS:The study population consisted of a representative cross-sectional sample of 9,672 Canadian youth in grades 6-10 and a 1-year longitudinal sample of 1,861 youth in grades 9-10. The number of weekly hours watching television, playing video games, and using a computer was determined. Violence was defined as engagement in ≥2 physical fights in the previous year and/or perpetration of ≥2-3 monthly episodes of physicalbullying. Logistic regression was used to examine associations. RESULTS:In the cross-sectional sample, computer use was associated with violence independent of television and video game use. Video game use was associated with violence in girls but not boys. Television use was not associated with violence after controlling for the other screen time measures. In the longitudinal sample, video game use was a significant predictor of violence after controlling for the other screen time measures. CONCLUSIONS:Computer and video game use were the screen time measures most strongly related to violence in this large sample of youth. Indian J Public Health. 2012 Apr-Jun;56(2):155-8. doi: 10.4103/0019-557X.99916. Mental health, protective factors and violence among male adolescents: a comparison between urban and rural school students in West Bengal.Samanta A, Mukherjee S, Ghosh S, Dasgupta A. SourceDepartment of Community Medicine, NRS Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. amritasmnt@yahoo.co.in AbstractA cross-sectional study was conducted among 199 (104 urban, 95 rural) male students of classes VIII and IX, of two schools, in urban and rural areas of West Bengal to compare the prevalence of protective factors, mental health issues, and violence among the urban and rural adolescents using a self-administered questionnaire. Higher proportion of urban students than rural (67.3% vs. 62.5%) reported that their guardians understood their problems. Mental health issues like loneliness (17.3% vs. 9.8%), worry (17.3% vs. 10.7%), and suicidal thoughts (19.2% vs. 14.1%) were higher among urban students. Physical fight (53.8% vs. 11.6%), bullying (46.4% vs. 17%), physical attack by family members (46% vs. 17%), and by teachers (53% vs. 10.7%) were all more in urban adolescents. Mental health- and violence-related issues were prevalent more among urban students than those among rural students in spite of having more protective factors suggesting the need of frequent supervision, monitoring, and support of adolescents. Health Educ Res. 2012 Apr;27(2):269-80. doi: 10.1093/her/cyr049. Epub 2011 Jun 28. Using interviews and peer pairs to better understand how school environments affect young children's playground physical activity levels: a qualitative study.Parrish AM, Yeatman H, Iverson D, Russell K. SourceSchool of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia. aparrish@uow.edu.au AbstractSchool break times provide a daily opportunity for children to be active; however, research indicates this time is underutilized. Reasons for low children's playground activity levels have primarily focused on physical barriers. This research aimed to contribute to physical environmental findings affecting children's playground physical activity levels by identifying additional variables through the interview process. Thirteen public schools were included in the sample (total 2946 children). Physical activity and environmental data were collected over 3 days. Environmental variables were manually assessed at each of the 13 schools. Observational data were used to determine which three schools were the most and least active. The principal, three teachers and 20 students in Grades 4-6 from these six schools (four lower and two average socioeconomic status) were invited to participate in the interview process. Student interviews involved the paired interview technique. The main themes generated from the school interviews included the effect of non-fixed equipment (including balls), playground markings, playground aesthetics, activity preference, clothing, the amount of break time available for play, teacher playground involvement, gender, bullying, school policies, student confidence in break-time activity and fundamental movement skills. The effect of bullying on playground physical activity levels was concerning. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2012 Apr;43(2):254-70. doi: 10.1007/s10578-011-0264-z. Bullying and peer victimisation in adolescent girls with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.Sciberras E, Ohan J, Anderson V. SourceCentre for Community Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia. emma.sciberras@mcri.edu.au AbstractEmerging evidence suggests that adolescent girls with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are more socially impaired compared with their peers; however, research has yet to elucidate the nature of this impairment. We investigated overt (e.g., physical, such as hitting or kicking or verbal, such as teasing and taunting) and relational (e.g., social manipulation, such as social exclusion) bullying and victimisation in adolescent girls with and without ADHD. Adolescent girls (mean age = 15.11) with (n = 22) and without (n = 20) ADHD and their primary caregivers completed measures of overt/relational bullying and victimisation and social impairment. Adolescent girls with ADHD experienced more social problems and more relational and overt victimisation than adolescent girls without ADHD. Although adolescent girls with ADHD engaged in more overt and relational bullying than adolescent girls without ADHD, this difference was not statistically significant. Oppositional Defiant Disorder symptoms appeared to be more strongly related to bullying behaviour, while victimisation appeared to be more strongly related to ADHD. Addict Behav. 2012 Apr;37(4):569-72. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2012.01.001. Epub 2012 Jan 11. Directory: documents documents -> Concept stage documents -> Concept stage documents -> The great global switch-off documents -> Nonprofit grant application documents -> The Truth about the Rwandan Genocide documents -> Annual InStructional unit plan documents -> Chaos equipment included Download 2.3 Mb. Share with your friends:
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