Parental Education and Children's Screen Time

Taipei Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Screen Time

Treatments: Behavioral: experimental group; Other: control group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04097587

(TMU-JIRB N201803013)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study was to investigate the efficacy of a parental educational program on reducing screen use, and improving sleep quality and psychosocial adaptations in children aged 4-6 years.

Full description

A total of 129 parent-child dyads were randomly allocated to two groups: experimental group (receiving parental education, n=63), and control group (daily activities, n=66). Data were collected before and after intervention. Instruments included screen time, Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire, and Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17. A linear mixed model analysis was used to examine the efficacy of education intervention.

Enrollment: 129 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 48 to 72 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children aged 4~6 years with screen time of ≥ 2 h/day.

Exclusion criteria

• cerebral palsy,
• mental retardation
• psychosis
• Down's syndrome
• chronic disease
• hearing impairment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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129 participants in 1 patient group

control group

Other group

Description:

received standard school classes and usual activities offered at the kindergarten. Briefly, kindergarten activities included daily learning activities, outdoor activities, breakfast, lunch, snacks, and nap time.

Treatment:

Other: control group

Behavioral: experimental group