Media Impact on Preschool Behavior

Seattle Children's Healthcare System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aggression; Prosocial Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: media diet; Behavioral: nutritional intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01459835

5R01HD056506-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study tests the hypothesis that modifying the media diet of preschool children so that they watch more prosocial programming and less violent programming will result in decreased aggression and increased prosocial behavior.

Enrollment: 600 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 4 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 2.5-4 years of age
• watches TV regularly
• English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• no TV
• non English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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600 participants in 2 patient groups

media diet

Experimental group

Description:

advice tips and tools to reduce exposure to violent programming

Treatment:

Behavioral: media diet

Nutrition intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

diet advice

Treatment:

Behavioral: nutritional intervention