{"id":3272,"date":"2009-06-05T22:08:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T20:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:38:24","slug":"kids-and-the-media-what-we-know-what-we-dont-know-and-what-we-need-to-find-out-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=3272","title":{"rendered":"Kids and the Media: What We Know, What We Don&#8217;t Know, and What We Need to Find Out (Quickly!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media may influence virtually every health concern that<sup> <\/sup>parents and pediatricians have about children and adolescents<sup> <\/sup>&#8212; aggressive behavior, drug use, early sexual activity, obesity,<sup> <\/sup>eating disorders, school achievement, language development,<sup> <\/sup>suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Considerable research has been done in the past 50<sup> <\/sup>years that documents the media&#8217;s ability to teach children and<sup> <\/sup>adolescents attitudes and beliefs that may influence their behavior.<sup> <\/sup> Media can also be powerfully pro-social.<\/p>\n<p>Clinicians need to<sup> <\/sup>understand the potential of media to influence young people<sup> <\/sup>and ask 2 key questions at health visits:  How much entertainment<sup> <\/sup>screen time does the child or teen spend per day?  Is there<sup> <\/sup>a TV set or Internet connection in the child&#8217;s or teen&#8217;s bedroom?<sup> <\/sup> Public policy suggestions for mediating harmful effects of<sup> <\/sup>media are also presente<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adc.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/short\/adc.2008.157156v2?q=w_adc_ahead_tab\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a> See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthscout.com\/news\/1\/627653\/main.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Health Scout<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media may influence virtually every health concern that parents and pediatricians have about children and adolescents &#8212; aggressive behavior, drug use, early sexual activity, obesity, eating disorders, school achievement, language development, suicide. Considerable research has been done in the past 50 years that documents the media&#8217;s ability to teach children and adolescents attitudes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4333,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}