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Background
Television watching is obesogenic due to its sedentary nature and programming content, which influences children. Few studies have examined exercise placement within children-specific programming. This study aimed to investigate the frequency and type of exercise placement in children-specific television broadcasts and to compare placeme...
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... exercise cue was defined as a portion within a scene where a sport or activity was undertaken. Exercises were subclassified into 21 differ- ent categories as shown in Table 1. Cues were also coded according to whether the portrayal was visual, verbal, or a combination of visual-verbal. ...
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... year of production ranged from 1955 to 2010: 66% of recordings were produced between 2004 and 2010. Broadcast of filler advertisements between the individual programs accounted for 17.2% of the cues (Table 1). ...
Context 3
... exercise settings accounted for 8.3% of cues and team sports 9.3%. The intensity of the cues was mild in 65.9% of cases, moderate in 31.0%, and intense in 3.1% (Tables 1 and 2). ...
Citations
... Portrayal of exercise was not the main focus of this study and therefore very little detail is provided. Scully et al. [8] analysed the content of television programmes aimed at young children in the UK and Ireland over a 5-day period. They showed that 7.7% of screen time depicted exercise or physical activity. ...
... A coding instrument (Additional file 2) was developed to record the portrayal of physical activity, based on the method described by Skully et al. [8]. An occurrence of physical activity was defined as visual, verbal (i.e. when the characters are discussing physical activity) or visualverbal reference to any form of physical activity being undertaken in a scene. ...
... Physical activity was portrayed in positive light, involving recreational activity, the most common of which was dancing, which was twice as frequently portrayed in the programmes analysed as any other activity. Scully et al. [8] also demonstrated dancing is the most prevalent activity in programmes aimed at young children. There are many potential mental and physical health benefits that arise from encouraging young adolescents to engage in dance [14], in addition to the contribution dance classes makes to the overall level of physical activity in young adolescents [15]. ...
Objective:
Exposure to health-related behaviours on television has been shown to influence smoking and drinking in young people, but little research has been conducted on the portrayal physical activity. The aim of the current project was to explore the portrayal of physical activity in television programmes aimed specifically at adolescent females. Content analysis of 120 episodes of four popular adolescent television programmes was performed. Information on the type and context of physical activity, motivating factors and characters involved was recorded.
Results:
Physical activity was portrayed 122 times, for a duration of 1 h and 31 min (3.2% of total viewing time). Physical activity was mainly portrayed as part of an informal activity as part of a group activity. Over half (53.2%) of scenes portrayed activity been carried out by teenagers. The types of activities portrayed were mostly of vigorous intensity (76.2%), for recreational purposes (78.7%) such as dancing (54.1%) and running (11.5%), and motivated by enjoyment. This study highlights that physical activity is portrayed infrequently, and often with a skewed representation of type of activity. There may be an opportunity to influence physical activity in young adolescents through the positioning of positive images of an active lifestyle in the media.
... Could a children's television (TV) show be one (perhaps counterintuitive) answer? A recent media content analysis of 82.5 h of children-specific TV broadcasting on UK and Irish channels found that physical activities were commonly integrated into TV programming, and health and physical activity promoting segments were prominent and portrayed positively (5). Intervening to deliver physical activity messages within the context of what many children are already doing, watching screens, is a novel and likely necessary development to promote healthy active living. ...
... Physical activity messages targeting parents through TV commercials may be effective in changing parents' support behaviors for children's physical activity (8). However, physical activity promotion within a TV context more broadly and its impact on subsequent childhood behavior remains little examined (5). In Canada, The Moblees' approach is attempting to modify the content of what children are watching in ways that increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior the rest of the day. ...
... Television content that includes messaging regarding healthy active living, and positive portrayals of physical activity could influence the physical activity and SSB of young children; appropriate television programming has been suggested as one strategy to address the epidemic of pediatric inactivity and obesity (5). Our findings provide some preliminary support for such a claim. ...
Background: The effects of messaging about physical activity and sedentary behavior purposefully integrated into children's TV programming on children's behavior is unknown. The Moblees is a Canadian childrens' show that explicitly promotes physical activity. Two studies were conducted to (1) examine whether children were more physically active when watching a Moblees episode, and (2) explore parental perceptions of the show.
Methods: Study 1 was an experimental study with 21 families randomized to watch an episode of The Moblees vs. a control condition. Movement was assessed through accelerometry and observation. A Chi-square test was used to compare the direct observation proportions of children sitting between intervention and control conditions. Independent t-tests were performed to examine the differences in total vector magnitude counts between the experimental and control groups. Study 2 was an online cross-sectional study with 104 parent/child dyads that included viewing an episode of The Moblees. To identify correlates and predictors of parent-reported child PA during viewing The Moblees compared to other TV programs, Pearson's correlations and a linear regression were calculated, respectively.
Results: In study 1 there was a significant association between condition and whether or not children remained sitting χ² = 55.96, p < 0.001. There was a significant difference in counts between the two conditions, t(13, 61) = 2.29, p < 0.05. Children randomized to the experimental group (i.e., Moblees) moved more compared to control. In study 2 the majority (76%) of parents reported that their child engaged in some physical activity during viewing. Parent encouragement during viewing was the strongest predictor of child physical activity while viewing (β = 0.30, p < 0.01).
Conclusion: Television content that includes messaging about physical activity and sedentary behavior, and positive portrayals of physical activity may influence the physical activity of young children. Although the benefits of such modest movement are not clear without further evidence of accumulation over time and/or transfer to other settings, television programming might provide a far reaching medium for knowledge translation.
Cieľom tejto monografickej práce bolo zistiť mieru informovanosti a plnenia odporúčaní pre oblasť vykonávania pohybových aktivít v rizikových populačných skupinách vybraných chronických ochorení na východnom Slovensku. Rovnako nás zaujímalo, akú úlohu zohráva lekár a zdravotnícky personál pri odporúčaniach pre realizáciu pohybovej aktivity pri liečbe pacienta a či pacient dodržiava tieto odporúčania. Predložená prierezová štúdia realizovaná u pacientov vybraných chronických ochorení zistila, že väčšina pacientov si uvedomuje dôležitosť pohybovej aktivity pri liečbe ich ochorenia. Rovnako sme zistili, že takmer polovica pacientov dostáva od lekára iba všeobecné informácie o realizácii pohybovej aktivity. Veľmi podrobné informácie dostáva takmer tretina pacientov. Prevažná väčšina pacientov v tejto štúdii uviedla, že má informácie o minimálnych požiadavkách na pohybovú aktivitu – frekvenciu, trvanie a intenzitu zaťaženia a poznajú vhodné telesné cvičenia pre prevenciu a liečbu ich ochorenia. Tieto výsledky podčiarkujú význam osvety a informovanosti vo vzťahu k zdravému životnému štýlu, ktorého dôležitou súčasťou je pohybová aktivita nielen pre zdravých ľudí, ale i pre ľudí v rizikových populačných skupinách vybraných ochorení, ktoré im nebránia vo vykonávaní pohybovej aktivity.
