Associations Between Content Types of Early Media Exposure and Subsequent Attentional Problems
@article{Zimmerman2007AssociationsBC, title={Associations Between Content Types of Early Media Exposure and Subsequent Attentional Problems}, author={Frederick J. Zimmerman and Dimitri A. Christakis}, journal={Pediatrics}, year={2007}, volume={120}, pages={986 - 992} }
OBJECTIVE
Television and video/DVD viewing among very young children has become both pervasive and heavy. [] Key MethodMETHODS
Participants were children in a nationally representative sample collected in 1997 and reassessed in 2002. The analysis was a logistic regression of a high score on a validated parent-reported measure of attentional problems, regressed on early television exposure by content and several important sociodemographic control variables.
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