Table 1.
Sample characteristics and associations with persistent requesting to use screen media.
| Overall | Outcome:
Persistent requesting |
P-value1 | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
| |||
| Column n (%) | n (%) with outcome | ||
|
| |||
| Overall | 383 (100%) | 110 (28.7%) | -- |
| Child characteristics | |||
| Age, years | |||
| 2 | 114 (29.8%) | 16 (14.0%) | <0.001 |
| 3 | 103 (26.9%) | 41 (39.8%) | |
| 4 | 95 (24.8%) | 32 (33.7%) | |
| 5 | 71 (18.5%) | 21 (29.6%) | |
| Gender | |||
| Female | 186 (48.6%) | 55 (29.6%) | 0.81 |
| Male | 197 (51.4%) | 55 (27.9%) | |
| Ethnicity | |||
| Non-Hispanic | 351 (91.6%) | 106 (30.2%) | 0.04 |
| Hispanic | 32 (8.4%) | 4 (12.5%) | |
| Race | |||
| White | 298 (77.8%) | 87 (29.2%) | 0.31 |
| Black | 30 (7.8%) | 7 (23.3%) | |
| Asian | 12 (3.1%) | 6 (50.0%) | |
| Other | 43 (11.2%) | 10 (23.3%) | |
| Parent characteristics | |||
| Age, years | |||
| 18–29 | 138 (36%) | 35 (25.4%) | 0.54 |
| 30–39 | 228 (59.5%) | 70 (30.7%) | |
| 40–49 | 17 (4.4%) | 5 (29.4%) | |
| Education level | |||
| High school or less | 136 (35.5%) | 34 (25.0%) | 0.30 |
| Associates degree | 53 (13.8%) | 13 (24.5%) | |
| Bachelor’s degree | 117 (30.5%) | 35 (29.9%) | |
| Graduate or professional school | 77 (20.1%) | 28 (36.4%) | |
| Household characteristics | |||
| Annual household income | |||
| Less than $25,000 | 49 (12.8%) | 9 (18.4%) | 0.34 |
| $25,000-$64,999 | 158 (41.3%) | 47 (29.8%) | |
| $65,000-$144,999 | 134 (35.0%) | 40 (29.9%) | |
| $145,000 or more | 17 (4.4%) | 4 (23.5%) | |
| I don’t want to answer | 25 (6.5%) | 10 (40.0%) | |
| Home ownership status | |||
| Own | 213 (55.6%) | 63 (29.6%) | 0.60 |
| Rent | 145 (37.9%) | 42 (29.0%) | |
| Other | 25 (6.5%) | 5 (20.0%) | |
| Overall | 383 (100%) | 110 (28.7%) | -- |
| Total adults (≥18 years old) in the home | |||
| 1 | 21 (5.5%) | 4 (19.1%) | 0.59 |
| 2 | 262 (68.4%) | 76 (29.0%) | |
| 3 or more | 100 (26.1%) | 30 (30.0%) | |
| Total children (0–17 years old) in the home | |||
| 1 | 72 (18.8%) | 19 (26.4%) | 0.71 |
| 2 | 163 (42.6%) | 45 (27.6%) | |
| 3 or more | 148 (38.6%) | 46 (31.1%) | |
| Household chaos2 | |||
| Least chaotic | 138 (36.0%) | 29 (21.0%) | 0.01 |
| Mid chaotic | 120 (31.3%) | 34 (28.3%) | |
| Most chaotic | 125 (32.6%) | 47 (37.6%) | |
Among 383 parents of preschool-age children who used any screen media in the past three months; parents were recruited nationally via social media for an online survey.
Persistent requesting includes “bothersome” or “very bothersome” requesting to use media devices versus no requesting or requesting that is “not bothersome at all” or “a little bothersome.”
1
P-values are from chi-square tests or Fisher’s exact tests when the sample size in any cell of the cross-tabulation was 5 or less.
2
Cut-points based on tertiles.