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Relationships between physical home environment and children's amount of small screen entertainment for the previous day using ANOVA (n = 280). |
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| Descriptive Construct |
Physical Home Environment Item |
Children's Sedentary Activity Mean small screen entertainment score (range = 0–11) |
p value |
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| Frequently |
Sometimes |
Occasionally |
Rarely/Never |
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| Physical activity (transport/play/sport outside home) |
Frequency child attends swimming lessons |
2.7a |
2.6ab |
3.6ab |
3.6b |
0.002 |
| Rules about small screen entertainment |
Frequency that TV is left on in home |
3.8a |
3.3ab |
2.9b |
2.5b |
<0.001 |
| Parents set rules about TV viewing |
2.5a |
3.6b |
3.6b |
4.1b |
<0.001 |
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| Parents limit exposure to TV advertising |
2.6a |
2.7a |
3.7b |
3.7b |
<0.001 |
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| Yes |
No |
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| Presence of small screen entertainment in home |
Play station in home |
3.5 |
2.9 |
0.02 |
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| Internet connection in home |
3.0 |
3.7 |
0.01 |
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| Computer in home |
3.1 |
3.9 |
0.07 |
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a,b Superscripts indicate which categories show a statistically significant difference using Bonferroni correction: same letter indicates no difference, different letter indicates a difference. | ||||||
Spurrier et al. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008 5:31 doi:10.1186/1479-5868-5-31 |
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