scholarly journals Screen time in the COVID era: International trends of increasing use among 3- to 7-year-old children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew David Ribner ◽  
Linsah Coulanges ◽  
Samantha Friedman ◽  
Melissa Libertus
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Socioeconomic Characteristics ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Screen Use

Objective: To evaluate changes in electronic screen-based media use in 3- to 7-year-old children across six countries as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: Between April and July 2020, parents and/or guardians of 2516 children completed online survey measures reporting current (“now”) and retrospective (“before the pandemic”) screen-based media use for the purposes of entertainment, educational app use, and socializing with family and friends. Parents also reported family socioeconomic characteristics and impacts of the pandemic to their physical wellbeing (e.g., whether a family member or friend had been diagnosed with COVID-19) and social disruption (e.g., whether family experienced a loss of income or employment due to the pandemic).Results: On average, children engaged with screens over 50 minutes more during the pandemic than before. This was largely driven by increases in screen use for entertainment purposes (nearly 40 minutes) and for use of educational apps (over 20 minutes). There was no overall change in screen use for socializing with family and friends. Children from lower socioeconomic status households increased screen use both for entertainment and educational app use more so than did children from higher socioeconomic status households. Conclusions: The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 has affected young children’s lives in almost every way, including increasing overall electronic screen-based media use. As children’s lives become increasingly digital by necessity, further research is needed to better understand positive and negative consequences of electronic screen-based media use.

scholarly journals Nowhere to Go: Parents' Descriptions of Children's Physical Activity During a Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanna Perez ◽  
Janelle K. Thalken ◽  
Nzubechukwu E. Ughelu ◽  
Camilla J. Knight ◽  
William V. Massey
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Exact Effect ◽  
Children’S Physical Activity

Background: Schools and outdoor public spaces play a substantial role in children's physical activity. Yet, the COVID-19 shelter-in-place mandates bound many children to their available home spaces for learning, movement, and development. The exact effect this mandate had on children's physical activity may vary among families.Objective: To understand, from the perspective of parents, how the COVID-19 shelter-in-place mandates affected children's physical activity, while also considering families' socioeconomic status.Design: Open-ended survey.Setting: Online.Method: Data were collected from 321 parents living in the United States of America. Parents answered an open-ended prompt to describe their children's physical activity during COVID-19 shelter-in-place mandates. Following data collection, inductive and deductive content analysis examined patterns in the data.Results: Analyses indicated that shelter-in-place mandates restricted children's opportunities for physical activity. However, if families had access to outdoor spaces or equipment, they could encourage and support more physical activity opportunities than those without. Families in the lower-income bracket had less access to outdoor space and subsequently those children had fewer opportunities to be physically active. Parents supported their children's physical activity through their involvement and encouragement.Conclusion: These findings underscore the importance of access to outdoor spaces and equipment for increasing children's physical activity. Findings can be used by educators and policymakers to equitably support families of lower socioeconomic status who reported less access to outdoor spaces.

scholarly journals Social Disparities in Adopting Non-pharmaceutical Interventions During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 0169796X2199685
Author(s):  
Svenn-Erik Mamelund ◽  
Jessica Dimka ◽  
Nan Zou Bakkeli
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Social Disparities ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Disease Outcomes ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

In the absence of vaccines to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 governments had to respond by rely on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Socioeconomic inequalities likely influenced the uptake of NPIs. Using Norwegian survey data, we study whether income was associated with increased handwashing, keeping 1 m distance, using facemasks increased use of home office, and less use of public transportation. Except for using facemasks and less public transportation in a non-work context, all analyzed NPIs showed an independent positive association with income. Social disparities in NPI uptake may be important drivers of higher risks of disease outcomes for people of lower socioeconomic status.

Is Fringe Baking A Component of Socially Determined Health?

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L Hundley ◽  
Richard W. Wilson ◽  
John Chenault ◽  
Jamie L. Smimble
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Health It ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Indirect Association ◽  
Zip Code

This was an exploratory study to assess the association between density of fringe lenders (e.g.payday) and health status. For Louisville, Kentucky, ZIP code level data on hospitalizations and mortalityrates as health measures were compared to fringe bank locations. We found lower socioeconomic status(SES) positively correlated with greater frequency of fringe banks; rates of illness appear to be higher in ZIPcodes with more fringe banks, but this finding was not statistically significant. In conclusion, neighbor-hoods between higher frequencies of fringe banks appear to have poorer health; it is premature to rule in orrule out a direct or indirect association between neighborhood presence of fringe banks, but there is enoughevidence to justify additional research to put any conclusions on a firmer footing.

'Just do it': An analysis of accounts of control over health amongst lower socioeconomic status groups

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Bolam ◽  
Darrin Hodgetts ◽  
Kerry Chamberlain ◽  
Simon Murphy ◽  
Kate Gleeson
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic

scholarly journals COMPARISON OF POST-NATAL DEPRESSION AMONG WOMEN OF UPPER, MIDDLE AND LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 2643-2647
Author(s):  
Dhwani.Prakash. Sidhpura ◽  
◽  
Satish Pimpale ◽  
Ajay Kumar ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Post Natal Depression

scholarly journals Conceptions of poverty and wealth among schoolchildren

Psihologija ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-215
Author(s):  
Spomenka Miskovic
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Group Affiliation ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Total N ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Parental Level

This research attempts to explore conceptions of poverty and wealth typical for Belgrade schoolchildren in two different ages: 13,5 years and 17,5 years (total N=222). We identified the content and the structure of conceptions, as well as the age differences for every conception element. The criteria for identification that younger children used were: possessing, appearance, psychical characteristic and specific social group affiliation, while older children demonstrated social schemes of larger complexity and stated: general needs, evaluation of life, different ways of becoming rich or poor, describing life-styles. Relations between various explanations of poverty and wealth revealed the existence of one homogeneous structural component (blaming the system) as well as the presence of conditional non homogeneous individualistic one. Schoolchildren with higher socioeconomic status prefered individualistic (positive) explanations of wealth in comparison with children that had lower socioeconomic status. At the same time, we found no difference in using structuralistic explanations of poverty between schoolchildren who had different socioeconomic status. Parental level of education turned out to be irrelevant for social criticism.

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