TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Children and their television watching habits. a comparative study in rural and urban environments. considerations on the effects
JO  - Boletín médico del Hospital Infantil de México
A1  - Novoa-Menchaca, A.
A1  - Guillén-Baumgarten, N.
A1  - García-Pérez, J.
A1  - Alatorre-Montoya, L. E.
A1  - Morán-Vázquez, J. O.
SP  - 332
EP  - 335
VL  - 47
IS  - 5
N2  - In order to establish differences among television watching habits, surveys were conducted in a group of 80 children; 40 from rural areas and another 40 from the urban area, who were attending elementary school at the time. The children were randomly selected; their responses were compared to a national and local listing of television programs, excluding those which were contradictory. Both groups of children spent the same amount of time at school (P = Not significant) while the urban group spent an average of 3.5 hours watching television and the rural group spent 2.3 hours (P = 0.001). Thirty percent of the children from the urban area watched TV with an adult while those from the rural zone were accompanied in 32% (P:NS). The number of television sets per home was significantly greater in the urban areas (P = 0.001). All of the children watched programs which were transmitted after 9 p.m. Both groups chose unneeded food commercials as their favorite programs (P = Not significant).<p />  <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 0539-6115
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -