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Television viewing, bedroom television, and sleep duration from infancy to mid-childhood

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Cespedes, Elizabeth M., Gillman, Matthew W., Kleinman, Ken, Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L., Redline, Susan, Taveras, Elsie M.·2014·Pediatrics

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BACKGROUND: Television and insufficient sleep are associated with poor mental and physical health. This study assessed associations of TV viewing and bedroom TV with sleep duration from infancy to midchildhood. METHOD: We studied 1864 children in Project Viva. Parents reported children’s average daily TV viewing and sleep (at 6 months and annually from 1–7 years) and the presence of a bedroom TV (annually 4–7 years). We used mixed effects models to assess associations of TV exposures with contemporaneous sleep, adjusting for child age, gender, race/ethnicity, maternal education, and income. RESULTS: Six hundred forty-three children (35%) were racial/ethnic minorities; 37% of households had incomes ≤$70 000. From 6 months to 7 years, mean (SD) sleep duration decreased from 12.2 (2.0) hours to 9.8 (0.9) hours per day; TV viewing increased from 0.9 (1.2) hours to 1.6 (1.0) hours per day. At 4 years, 17% had a bedroom TV, rising to 23% at 7 years. Each 1 hour per day increase in lifetime TV viewing was associated with 7 minutes per day (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4 to 10) shorter sleep. The association of bedroom TV varied by race/ethnicity; bedroom TV was associated with 31 minutes per day shorter sleep (95% CI: 16 to 45) among racial/ethnic minority children, but not among white, non-Hispanic children (8 fewer minutes per day [95% CI: −19 to 2]). CONCLUSIONS: More TV viewing, and, among racial/ethnic minority children, the presence of a bedroom TV, were associated with shorter sleep from infancy to midchildhood.

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  • In US infants, higher screen media exposure predicted 7 fewer minutes of total sleep per day.

    “Longitudinal analyses of United States (Cespedes et al., 2014) and Thai (Vijakkhana, Wilaisakditipakorn, Ruedeekhajorn, Pruksananonda, & Chonchaiya, 2015) infants demonstrated similar results, with greater screen media exposure predictive of 7 and 28 min fewer total sleep per day, respectively.”

    From Screen Media Overuse and Associated Physical, Cognitive, and Emotional/Behavioral Outcomes in Children and Adolescents: An Integrative Review (2022) · cites this paper as Cespedes et al., 2014

    The Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations section reports 7 fewer minutes of sleep per day for each additional hour per day of lifetime-average TV viewing. That estimate covers children followed from infancy through mid-childhood, not infants alone, and measures TV viewing rather than screen media exposure generally. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Cespedes, E. M., Gillman, M. W., Kleinman, K., Rifas-Shiman, S. L., Redline, S., & Taveras, E. M.
Affiliations
  • Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts;
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
Venue
Pediatrics
Published
2014-05-01
Volume
133
Issue
5
Pages
e1163-e1171
ISSN
  • 0031-4005 (ISSN-L)
  • 1098-4275
OpenAlex
W2126511507
Cited by
219
References
39
Citations by year
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FWCI
95.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PEDIATRICS (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Cancer Institute (U54CA155626, NCI 1U54CA15562601)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (T32DK007703)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R37HD034568, R01HD034568)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
Keywords
television viewing, sleep duration, children's sleep, infancy, Project Viva, screen time, child health
MeSH terms
Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Infant, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Minority Groups, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Social Environment, Socioeconomic Factors, Television, White People

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