Media device ownership and media use: Associations with sedentary time, physical activity and fitness in English youth
Open accessAbstract
The aim of this study was to determine whether ownership and use of electronic media were associated with sedentary time and cardiorespiratory fitness (fitness) in youth. We also aimed to determine if associations were independent of physical activity (PA). Fitness was measured using the 20 m shuttle-run. PA, sedentary time, ownership of media devices and media use were self-reported. Participants (n = 678, age 10-15 years) reported daily sedentary time of 620 (± 210) min. Forty-one percent of participants had low PA and 50.4% had low fitness. Higher weekend sedentary time was associated with low fitness in girls (p = 0.005) and boys (p < 0.001) and remained significant when adjusted for PA in the latter (p = 0.006). Using social media was associated with higher sedentary time in both sexes and low fitness in girls. High sedentary time was more likely (OR = 5.3, 95%CI: 2.0-14.4) in boys who owned game consoles. Low fitness was more likely in boys who owned digital/satellite TV receivers (OR = 1.8, 95%CI: 1.8-3.2). Schoolchildren spent > 10 h or ~ 85% of each waking day sedentary. Use of social media was associated with higher sedentary time in both sexes and with low fitness in girls. Reducing social media use in youth offers one potential target for intervention. Behaviours associated with sedentary time differed from predictors of low fitness. The complex and often sex-specific interactions identified between sedentary time, PA and fitness suggest the need for carefully targeted interventions to reduce sedentary time and improve fitness in English youth.
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
A survey study showed an association between ownership of devices and higher sedentary time involving technology use.
“This is supported by a survey study which showed an association between ownership of devices and higher sedentary time involving technology use [57].”
From “From the moment I wake up I will use it…every day, very hour”: a qualitative study on the patterns of adolescents’ mobile touch screen device use from adolescent and parent perspectives (2019) · cites this paper as [57]
The Results (Media ownership and media use: associations with sedentary time; page unavailable) associate ownership of game consoles and desktop computers with higher sedentary time. But the Methods (Sedentary time; page unavailable) define the outcome as total sitting time across activities, not specifically sedentary time involving technology use. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Cites
Physical fitness and activity as separate heart disease risk factors: a meta-analysis
WILLIAMS, P. T. (2001) · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · doi:10.1097/00005768-200105000-00012 · Cited by 724 · see citing works
Active Video Games to Promote Physical Activity in Children and Youth: A Systematic Review
Biddiss, E., & Irwin, J. (2010) · Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine · doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.104 · Cited by 562 · see citing works
Impact of Social Media on the Health of Children and Young People
Richards, D., Caldwell, P. H., & Go, H. (2015) · Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health · doi:10.1111/jpc.13023 · Cited by 247 · see citing works
Screen Time and Physical Activity in Youth: Thief of Time or Lifestyle Choice?
Sandercock, G. R. H., Ogunleye, A., & Voss, C. (2012) · Journal of Physical Activity and Health · doi:10.1123/jpah.9.7.977 · Cited by 83 · cited 1× · see citing works
“Boys reported more weekend sedentary time than girls despite being more physically active (Ekelund et al., 2006; Martinez-Gomez et al., 2011; Sandercock et al., 2012).”
BackgroundSelf-citation
Flagged first, then by citations
Research works printed but not linked: 28
- Aggio D. Ogunleye A.A. Voss C. Sandercock G.R. Temporal relationships between screen-time and physical activity with cardiorespiratory fitness in English schoolchildren: a 2-year longitudinal study Prev. Med. 55 2012 37 39 22561029
- Altman D.G. Royston P. The cost of dichotomising continuous variables BMJ 332 2006 1080 16675816 PMC1458573
- Arango C.M. Parra D.C. Gomez L.F. Lema L. Lobelo F. Ekelund U. Screen time, cardiorespiratory fitness and adiposity among school-age children from Monteria, Colombia J. Sci. Med. Sport 17 2014 491 495 24211150
- Biddle S.J. Gorely T. Marshall S.J. Is television viewing a suitable marker of sedentary behavior in young people? Ann. Behav. Med. 38 2009 147 153 19809858
- Biddle S.J. Marshall S.J. Gorely T. Cameron N. Temporal and environmental patterns of sedentary and active behaviors during adolescents' leisure time Int. J. Behav. Med. 16 2009 278 286 19238558
- Biddle S.J. Petrolini I. Pearson N. Interventions designed to reduce sedentary behaviours in young people: a review of reviews Br. J. Sports Med. 48 2014 182 186 24347578
- Cummings H.M. Vandewater E.A. Relation of adolescent video game play to time spent in other activities Arch. Pediatr. Adolesc. Med. 161 2007 684 689 17606832 PMC5761323
- Delmas C. Platat C. Schweitzer B. Wagner A. Oujaa M. Simon C. Association between television in bedroom and adiposity throughout adolescence Obesity (Silver Spring) 15 2007 2495 2503 17925476
- Eisenmann J.C. Wickel E.E. Welk G.J. Blair S.N. Relationship between adolescent fitness and fatness and cardiovascular disease risk factors in adulthood: the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (ACLS) Am. Heart J. 149 2005 46 53 15660033
- Ekelund U. Brage S. Froberg K. TV viewing and physical activity are independently associated with metabolic risk in children: the European youth heart study PLoS Med. 3 2006 e488 PMC1705825 17194189
- Gorely T. Marshall S.J. Biddle S.J. Couch kids: correlates of television viewing among youth Int J Behav. Med. 11 2004 152 163 15496343
- Janz K.F. Lutuchy E.M. Wenthe P. Levy S.M. Measuring activity in children and adolescents using self-report: PAQ-C and PAQ-A Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 40 2008 767 772 18317366
- Leger L.A. Mercier D. Gadoury C. Lambert J. The multistage 20 metre shuttle run test for aerobic fitness J. Sports Sci. 6 1988 93 101 3184250
- Lepp A. Barkley J.E. Sanders G.J. Rebold M. Gates P. The relationship between cell phone use, physical and sedentary activity, and cardiorespiratory fitness in a sample of US college students Int. J. Behav. Nutr. Phys. Act. 10 2013 PMC3693866 23800133
- Marques A. Santos R. Ekelund U. Sardinha L.B. Association between physical activity, sedentary time, and healthy fitness in youth Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 47 2015 575 580 24977696
- Martinez-Gomez D. Ortega F.B. Ruiz J.R. Excessive sedentary time and low cardiorespiratory fitness in European adolescents: the HELENA study Arch. Dis. Child. 96 2011 240 246 21220264
- Ogunleye A.A. Voss C. Sandercock G.R. Prevalence of high screen time in English youth: association with deprivation and physical activity J. Public Health (Oxf.) 34 2012 46 53 21930620
- Olds T.S. Maher C.A. Ridley K. Kittel D.M. Descriptive epidemiology of screen and non-screen sedentary time in adolescents: a cross sectional study Int. J. Behav. Nutr. Phys. Act. 7 2010 92 21194427 PMC3024298
- Pate R.R. Mitchell J.A. Byun W. Dowda M. Sedentary behaviour in youth Br. J. Sports Med. 45 2011 906 913 21836174
- Sallis J.F. Prochaska J.J. Taylor W.C. A review of correlates of physical activity of children and adolescents Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 32 2000 963 975 10795788
- Salmon J. Tremblay M.S. Marshall S.J. Hume C. Health risks, correlates, and interventions to reduce sedentary behavior in young people Am. J. Prev. Med. 41 2011 197 206 21767728
- Sandercock G.R. Ogunleye A.A. Independence of physical activity and screen time as predictors of cardiorespiratory fitness in youth Pediatr. Res. 73 2013 692 697 23417036
- Santos R. Mota J. Okely A.D. The independent associations of sedentary behaviour and physical activity on cardiorespiratory fitness Br. J. Sports Med. 48 2014 1508 1512 23410883
- Swift D.L. Lavie C.J. Johannsen N.M. Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and exercise training in primary and secondary coronary prevention Circ. J. 77 2013 281 292 23328449 PMC7027930
- van Sluijs E.M. Page A. Ommundsen Y. Griffin S.J. Behavioural and social correlates of sedentary time in young people Br. J. Sports Med. 44 2010 747 755 18812418
- Voss C. Sandercock G. Aerobic fitness and mode of travel to school in English schoolchildren Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 42 2010 281 287 20083960
- Voss C. Ogunleye A.A. Sandercock G.R. Physical activity questionnaire for children and adolescents: English norms and cut-points Pediatr. Int. 55 2013 498 507 23461812
- Warburton D.E. Nicol C.W. Bredin S.S. Health benefits of physical activity: the evidence CMAJ 174 2006 801 809 16534088 PMC1402378
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Reinecke, L., Gilbert, A., & Eden, A. (2022) · Current Opinion in Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.12.008 · Cited by 111 · see citing works
Toh, S. H., Howie, E. K., Coenen, P., & Straker, L. M. (2019) · BMC Pediatrics · doi:10.1186/s12887-019-1399-5 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
Internet use for social interaction by people with psychosis: a systematic review
Jakubowska, A., Kaselionyte, J., Priebe, S., & Giacco, D. (2019) · Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking · doi:10.1089/cyber.2018.0554 · Cited by 24 · see citing works
- Authors
- Sandercock, G. R. H., Alibrahim, M., & Bellamy, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Essex (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Sandercock, Gavin R.H.
- Venue
- Preventive Medicine Reports
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-12
- Volume
- 4
- Pages
- 162-168
- ISSN
- 2211-3355 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4929126
- OpenAlex
- W2414221570
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 2.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Preventive Medicine Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (acceptedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- PROVIDE Public Health, Essex
- DB0500H1
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Keywords
- electronic media use, sedentary time, physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, social media use, video game consoles, digital television receivers, elementary school students, youth, sex differences, 20-m shuttle run test, intervention targets
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
