title: Association Between Parent Television-Viewing Practices and Setting Rules to Limit the Television-Viewing Time of Their 8- to 12-Year-Old Children, Minnesota, 2011-2015.
abstract: Television (TV) viewing is popular among adults and children, and child TV-viewing time is positively associated with parent TV-viewing time. Efforts to limit the TV-viewing time of children typically target parent rule-setting. However, little is known about the association between parent TV-viewing practices and rule-setting.
  
  
  
  We used baseline height and weight data and survey data collected from 2011 through 2015 on parents and their 8- to 12-year-old children (N = 212 parent/child dyads) who were participants in 2 community-based obesity prevention intervention trials conducted in metropolitan Minnesota. Multivariable binary logistic regression analysis was used to assess the association between parent TV-viewing time on weekdays or weekend days (dichotomized as ≤2 hrs/d vs ≥2.5 hrs/d) and parent rules limiting child TV-viewing time.
  
  
  
  Child mean age was 10 (standard deviation [SD], 1.4) years, mean body mass index (BMI) percentile was 81 (SD, 16.7), approximately half of the sample were boys, and 42% of the sample was nonwhite. Parent mean age was 41 (SD, 7.5) years, and mean BMI was 29 (SD, 7.5); most of the sample was female, and 36% of the sample was nonwhite. Parents who limited their TV-viewing time on weekend days to 2 hours or fewer per day were almost 3 times more likely to report setting rules limiting child TV-viewing time than were parents who watched 2.5 hours or more per day (P = .01). A similar association was not seen for parent weekday TV-viewing time.
  
  
  
  For most adults and children, a meaningful decrease in sedentariness will require reductions in TV-viewing time. Family-based interventions to reduce TV-viewing time that target the TV-viewing practices of both children and parents are needed.
authors.affiliation: Temple University, College of Public Health, Department of Nursing, 3307 North Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19140. Email: mkubik@temple.edu.
authors.forename: Martha Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Kubik
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, School of Nursing, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Olga V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Gurvich
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, School of Nursing, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Jayne A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Fulkerson
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008910:Minnesota; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D013690:Television / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013997:Time Factors