Table 2.
Relationships between physical home environment and children's amount of small screen entertainment for the previous day using ANOVA (n = 280).
Descriptive Construct | Physical Home Environment Item | Children's Sedentary Activity Mean small screen entertainment score (range = 0–11) | p value | |||
Frequently | Sometimes | Occasionally | Rarely/Never | |||
Physical activity (transport/play/sport outside home) | Frequency child attends swimming lessons | 2.7a | 2.6ab | 3.6ab | 3.6b | 0.002 |
Rules about small screen entertainment | Frequency that TV is left on in home | 3.8a | 3.3ab | 2.9b | 2.5b | <0.001 |
Parents set rules about TV viewing | 2.5a | 3.6b | 3.6b | 4.1b | <0.001 | |
Parents limit exposure to TV advertising | 2.6a | 2.7a | 3.7b | 3.7b | <0.001 | |
Yes | No | |||||
Presence of small screen entertainment in home | Play station in home | 3.5 | 2.9 | 0.02 | ||
Internet connection in home | 3.0 | 3.7 | 0.01 | |||
Computer in home | 3.1 | 3.9 | 0.07 |
a,b Superscripts indicate which categories show a statistically significant difference using Bonferroni correction: same letter indicates no difference, different letter indicates a difference.