TABLE 2.

Attitudes and barriers of all parents whose children engaged in screen time and according to whether their children met or exceeded the guidelines

	Agree or strongly agree*
	Engaged in screen time (n=560)	Met guidelines (n=210)	Exceeded guidelines (n=350)
Attitudes
Good learning tool	73.0	62.8	79.4†
Child enjoyment	95.8	94.1	96.8
Gives parent opportunity to get things done	84.0	78.6	87.4†
Allows parent to cope with busy day/multiple children	51.0	43.1	55.9†
Allows child to relax	53.5	45.6	58.3†
Family, bonding or quality time	47.2	37.6	53.1†
Grabs hold of child’s attention	66.9	58.9	71.9†
It teaches children to get along with others	21.0	14.8	24.9†
Barriers
Pressure from society to purchase media equipment	23.4	18.8	26.3†
Neighbourhood is unsafe	8.8	5.9	10.7†
Poor weather limits time outside	50.7	40.8	56.9†
Parent needs coping-tool for busy day/multiple children	32.5	21.7	39.4†
Parent needs time to do household chores	63.5	53.5	69.6†
Child really enjoys screen time	69.5	54.0	79.3†
Child does not engage in too much screen time	74.7	84.5	68.4†

Data presented as %.

^*Ninety-seven parents did not respond to these attitudes and barriers questions, including 53 parents whose child did not engage in screen time activities;

^†χ² P≤0.05