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Neil P Sharma1, Patricia I Documėt, Bethany Barone Gibbs
1Departments of Health and Human Development (Mr Sharma and Drs Gibbs and Taverno Ross) and Behavioral and Community Health Sciences (Dr Documėt), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Abstract:
Latinx children engage in excessive screen time and are disproportionately affected by obesity. We examined the effect of generational status and language use on screen time in 6- to 11-year-old Latinx children and whether parental limit setting mediated that relationship. Participants included 3127 children (aged 9.2 ± 2.0 years; 54% male) from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health. Spanish language use was associated with 14.0 more minutes per day of screen time (P = .038); parental limit setting partially mediated this relationship (11.4%). Future research should explore the protective role of parental limit setting in reducing screen time in Latinx children.
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