Division of Primary Care Pediatrics and Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Department of Pediatrics (CT Wood, JB Howard, and EM Perrin),; Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (CT Wood, CL Brown, JB Howard, MJ Steiner, and EM Perrin),.
Department of Population Health Sciences (AC Skinner), Duke University School of Medicine; Duke Clinical Research Institute (AC Skinner), Durham, NC.
Acad Pediatr. 2019 Jul;19(5):529-533. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2019.04.002. Epub 2019 Apr 11.
Little is known about the concordance of parent and child reports of children's media consumption, even though parents are often asked to report for their children in clinical care settings. Our objective was to understand how parent and child reports of children's media consumption differ in an era of changing screen media consumption via personal devices.
As part of a larger study about the reception of health-related cues from children's media, children ages 9 to 11 years (N = 114) and their parents independently completed identical questionnaires about specific media use and health behaviors. To examine concordance between child and parent reports of children's screen media use, we calculated the mean number of minutes per day and proportions reported by the child and parent and assessed concordance with t-tests and chi-square tests.
On a typical day, children reported nearly an hour each of video and app game use, computer use, and television exposure. Overall, child and parent reports were similar, usually within 10 minutes of each other; however, among 3 measures of TV use, parents consistently reported less TV exposure than children. There was significant discordance in the percentages of parents and children reporting the presence of a TV in the child's room.
Parent and child reports of children's media use were generally concordant; however, there were important disagreements, such as TV use in the child's room and during meals. We discuss possible causes of discrepancies and implications.
尽管在临床护理环境中，父母经常被要求为其子女报告相关情况，但人们对父母和子女对儿童媒体消费的报告的一致性知之甚少，而这种一致性在通过个人设备进行屏幕媒体消费的时代显得尤为重要。
作为一项关于儿童媒体中健康相关线索接受情况的更大研究的一部分，年龄在 9 至 11 岁的儿童（N=114）及其父母分别独立完成了关于特定媒体使用和健康行为的相同问卷。为了检验儿童和父母对儿童屏幕媒体使用情况的报告是否一致，我们计算了儿童和父母报告的每天分钟数和比例，并通过 t 检验和卡方检验评估了一致性。
在典型的一天中，儿童报告了近一小时的视频和应用程序游戏使用、计算机使用和电视观看时间。总体而言，儿童和父母的报告相似，通常彼此相差不到 10 分钟；然而，在三种电视使用测量方法中，父母报告的电视观看时间始终比儿童报告的时间少。父母和儿童报告儿童房间内有电视的比例存在显著差异。
父母和子女对儿童媒体使用的报告通常是一致的；然而，存在一些重要的分歧，例如儿童房间内和用餐时的电视使用。我们讨论了差异产生的可能原因及其影响。
