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. 2017 May 4;8:31. doi: 10.4103/ijpvm.IJPVM_36_17

Factors Associated with Screen Time in Iranian Children and Adolescents: The CASPIAN-IV Study

Nafiseh Mozafarian 1, Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh 1,2, Ramin Heshmat 3, Siavash Karimi 1, Morteza Mansourian 4, Fatemeh Mohebpour 1,, Mostafa Qorbani 5,6,, Roya Kelishadi 1
PMCID: PMC5439292  PMID: 28567233

Abstract

Background:

Prolonged screen time is frequent in children and adolescents. Implementing interventions to reduce physical inactivity needs to assess related determinants. This study aims to assess factors associated with screen time in a national sample of children and adolescents.

Methods:

This nationwide study was conducted among 14,880 students aged 6–18 years. Data collection was performed using questionnaires and physical examination. The World Health Organization-Global School Health Survey questionnaire was used. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between demographic variables, socioeconomic status (SES), family structure, physical activity, unhealthy eating habits, body mass index, and mental distress with screen time.

Results:

The participation rate was 90.6% (n = 13,486), 50.8% were male, and 75.6% lived in urban areas. Mean (standard deviation) age of participants was 12.47 (3.36) years. The SES, eating junk foods, urban residence, and age had significant association with screen time, watching television (TV), and computer use (P < 0.05). With increasing number of children, the odds ratio of watching TV reduced (P < 0.001). Statistically, significant association existed between obesity and increased time spent watching TV (P < 0.001). Girls spent less likely to use computer and to have prolonged screen time (P < 0.001). Participants in the sense of worthlessness were less likely to watch TV (P = 0.005). Screen time, watching TV, and using computer were higher in students with aggressive behaviors (P < 0.001); screen time was higher in those with insomnia.

Conclusions:

In this study, higher SES, unhealthy food habits, and living in urban areas, as well as aggressive behaviors and insomnia increased the risk of physical inactivity.

Keywords: Children and adolescents, determinants, screen time

Introduction

Sedentary behaviors include activities while sitting or reclining with the least energy expenditure.[1] Screen time, which is often used for assessing sedentary behaviors, is defined as the time adolescents spend on watching television (TV), video games, and using a computer.[2]

Recommendations for watching TV in children is up to 2 h/day.[3] However, most children and adolescents do not adhere to these guidelines as screen time in 79.5% of adolescents in Brazil is more than 2 h/day.[4]

A cross-sectional study in Barcelona also revealed that about 50% of students spend more than 2 h/day on watching TV. A total of 68.2% of boys and 61.7% of girls use computer more than 2 h/week.[5] In this context, a cross-sectional study on 370 children in Korea showed that screen time in about 46% of children is 1–2.9 h and in 8.9% is more than 3 h/day.[6] A national study reported that approximately 33.4% and 53% of Iranian students aged 6–18 years spend their time for watching TV or video on weekdays and on weekend, respectively, and about half of urban students and a quarter of rural students used a personal computer (PC).[7]

Unfavorable lifestyle habits of children and adolescents, especially sedentary behaviors, threat to health in this group, and the population is at risk for cardiovascular epidemics such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, and psychological disorders.[8] In this context, evidence suggests that increased time watching TV was associated with an increase in obesity in children and adolescents.[9,10,11,12] A number of studies reported the association between screen time and increased risk of metabolic syndrome or its components in children and adolescents.[13,14,15,16,17,18] Evidence suggests that sedentary behaviors formed in childhood and continues into adolescence and adulthood.[19,20,21,22]

Research has been done on factors related to screen time, and meta-analysis study showed that children with overweight and obesity had more risk for screen time more than 2 h compared to children with normal weight.[23] Data showed that high socioeconomic status (SES),[4] unhealthy eating habits,[5] depression, and mental problems[24] are related to screen time.

Most studies have studied the effect of factors related to screen time,[4,5,6] while a few studies assessed separately the factors associated with time spent watching TV or using a computer. On the other hand, there is evidence about factors affecting screen time often in developed countries and in developing countries; especially, our country has limited studies. This study aims to assess the factors associated with screen time in Iranian children and adolescents.

Methods

This study was performed as part of the fourth survey of the national schoolbased surveillance system entitled the “Childhood and Adolescence Surveillance and Prevention of Adult Noncommunicable Disease” study. The methods of CASPIAN-IV study were described previously.[25] The participants of the present study were selected from elementary, intermediate, and high school by a cluster sampling method in 30 provinces of Iran (48 clusters of 10 people in each province). Totally, 13,486 students in the age range of 6–18 years were participants in this study. The students who did not have data about time spent watching TV and using computer were excluded from the study.

Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethical Committees, and participants signed informed consent after receiving explanation of the study protocols.

Measurements

Data were obtained by the questionnaire of the World Health Organization-Global Student Health Survey that validity and reliability were assessed previously.[26]

SES was assessed through principal component analysis methods by some variables including parents’ education, parents’ occupation, possessing private car, school type (public/private), type of home (rented/private), and having PC in the home, which were summarized in one main component. This main component was classified into tertiles. The first tertile was defined as low, second tertile as moderate, and third tertile as high SES.

Physical activity was estimated by two questions. (1) During the past week, on how many days were you physically active for overall 30 min per day? Responses options were from 0 to 7 days. (2) How much time do you spend in exercise class regularly in school per week? Responses ranged from 0 to 3 or more hours. Physical activity was categorized into tertiles. The first tertile was defined as a mild, second tertile as a moderate, and third tertile as a severe.

Psychiatric distress included worry, depression, confusion, insomnia, anxiety, and aggression, and feelings of being worthless were assessed by seven questions.

The screen time behavior of children was assessed by a questionnaire that asked the child to report the average number of hours per day spent watching TV/VCDs, PC, and electronic games. Screen time activity was categorized into two groups (<2 h/day and ≥2 h).

To assess dietary habits, food frequency questionnaire was applied and nine items include sweets, salty/fatty snacks, soda, fruits, dried fruit, vegetables, sugar-sweetened drinks, milk, and fast food. Five groups of foods were considered as unhealthy foods, including sweets, salty/fatty snacks, soda, sugar-sweetened drinks, and fast food. Unhealthy food was categorized into tertiles. The first tertile was defined as a mild, second tertile as a moderate, and third tertile as a severe.

Anthropometric measurements

Anthropometric indexes were measured according to the standard protocol. Height was recorded to the nearest 0.1 cm without shoes, and weight with minimal clothing with 0.1 kg accuracy using calibrated instruments. BMI was calculated as weight divided by height (in kg/m2).

Statistical analysis

The data were analyzed by the STATA software version 10.0 (STATA Corp, College Station, Texas, USA). The categorical variables were presented as number (%) and continuous variables were summarized as mean (standard deviation [SD]). Comparisons of means were investigated by t-test. The Pearson's Chi-square test was used to analyze categorical variables. Logistic regression was performed to assess the association of independent variables with screen time in different models for adjusting potential confounders. Method of sampling (cluster sampling) was considered in all statistical analyses. P < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

Results

The participation rate was 90.6% (n = 13, 486); 50.8% were boys, and 75.6% lived in urban regions. The mean (SD) age of participants was 12.47 (3.36) years. In total, 50.66% of students watched TV more than 2 h/day, 9.63% of those used a computer more than 2 h/day in their leisure time, and 18.62% of students had screen time more than 4 h/day.

Table 1 shows the demographic characteristics of students according to sex and age. In both sex groups, the frequency of watching TV (more than 2 h), using computer (more than 2 h), and screen time (more than 4 h) was significantly higher in the age group of 13–18 years than age group of 6–12 years. In addition, the age group of 13–18 years had more PC and higher SES than age group 6–12 years (P < 0.001).

Table 1.

Characteristics of study population according to sex and age: The CASPIAN-IV study

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Prevalence of psychiatric distress by sex is shown in Table 2. The results presented that significantly, the prevalence of psychiatric distress was higher in girls than boys (P < 0.001).

Table 2.

Prevalence of psychiatric distress by gender: The CASPIAN-IV study

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Table 3 presents the association of independent variables with screen time in logistic model. The results showed that older participants had significantly higher risk for higher watching TV, using computer, and screen time (P < 0.001). Significantly, girls had less risk for using computer and screen time than boys (P < 0.001). Students from high SES regions and students with unhealthy diet had greater risk for higher watching TV, using computer, and screen time (P < 0.001). Overweight and obese students significantly had more risk for high watching TV. With the increasing number of children, the risk of watching TV significantly decreased (P < 0.001). Participants with insomnia and aggression significantly had higher risk for higher using computer and screen time (P < 0.001).

Table 3.

Association of independent variables with screen time in logistic regression model: The CASPIAN-IV study

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Discussion

The findings of the present study showed that students with higher SES, unhealthy food habits, from urban areas, and older had higher risk for higher watching TV, using computer, and screen time. The findings of previous studies showed that there was a significant association between age increasing with screen time,[20,27,28,29,30,31] which was consistent with our results. The results of Babey et al.'s study indicated that age was positive associated with using computer, while no significant association was found between age and time spent watching TV.[32]

In the present study, no significant association was seen between sex and time spent watching TV, which was consistent with previous studies.[33,34] Data showed that boys had more risk for high screen time than girls,[4,6,23,28,29] which was consistent with our results. The high level of screen time in boys may due to high using computer and video games,[35] and on the other hand, in girls in addition to watching TV, other sedentary behaviors such as talking on the phone, listening to music,[36] and reading[37] were seen more than boys.

The results of our study presented that students from urban regions had higher risk for watching TV, using computer, and screen time. A cross-sectional study in Greece showed that living in urban is associated with high risk of watching TV.[38] In urban regions, high access to cafenets, internet, computer games, and, on the other hand, increasing urbanization and decreasing access to safe environment for playing cause watching TV and using computer, which are the main entertainments of children and adolescents.

In the current study, participants from high SES regions had higher risk watching TV, using computer, and screen time. Our results were consistent with other studies.[4,29,39] High level of screen time in high SES level may due to great access to electronic devices, video games, and computer. The results of a study in Columbia showed that factors such as working mother and income families were positively associated with access to electronic devices, TV, and computer in a child room.[40]

Significant association between physical activity and time spent watching TV and screen time was found in our study. The results of studies have been inconsistent, but some data showed that watching TV and using computer may replace physical activity in children and adolescents.[41] Previous study indicated that low level of physical activity was related to increased time spent watching TV and using computer.[32]

In the present study, no significant association was found between family structure and time spent watching TV, using computer, and screen time. The results of our study were consistent with previous study.[30] In our study, with increasing number of family's children, the risk of watching TV decreased. The results of a cross-sectional study in Barcelona showed that boys who live with both parents use media less than boys who live with one parent.[5]

Data presented no significant association between weight and screen time,[4,5] which was consistent with our results. While other studies showed that obesity was positively associate with increase of screen time,[6,23,39] in our study students with overweight and obesity significantly had higher risk of increasing time spent watching TV. In addition, in our study, positive association was found between unhealthy eating habits and screen time. Results of other studies showed that unhealthy eating habits were associated significantly with screen time.[5,6,42] The findings of study in Belgium showed that unhealthy eating habits such as high consumption of soda and chips in early adolescence predict the high screen time in early adulthood.[42] Data indicated that fast food consumption and eating junk food were associated with screen time and increasing time spent watching TV.[6,42]

In our study, students who had experience of worthlessness had high risk for increasing watching TV, and aggressive students had more risk for increased time spent watching TV, using computer, and screen time. Furthermore, students with insomnia had high risk for using computer and screen time. Data showed that depression was in related to time spent watching TV and video games.[24,43] In the present study, there was no significant association found between depression and watching TV that may due to different data collection method.

Our study had some limitations. The study design was cross-sectional that not allowed to conclusion about causation. Despite these limitations, main strength of the current study was large sample.

Conclusions

Findings show the association of age, SES, living area, eating junk foods, and some psychiatric distress with screen time, watching TV, and using computer during leisure time. Effective interventions should consider the modifiable risk factors to reduce the screen time and its adverse health effects.

Financial support and sponsorship

The main study was conducted as a national school-based surveillance program. The current study was funded by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (Project code: 294176).

Conflicts of interest

There are no conflicts of interest.

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