Introduction: Following mass traumatic events, greater exposure to traditional media like television (TV) about the event is associated with higher burden of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Salma M. Abdalla +4 more
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Television Watching, Diet Quality, Physical Activity and Diabetes Among Three Ethnicities in the United States [PDF]
Diabetes is a world-wide epidemic associated with multiple environmental factors. Prolonged television viewing (TV) time has been related to increased risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes in several studies.
Dixon, Zisca +5 more
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Evaluation of Carotid Arterial Intima-Media Thickness (IMT) and Its Relation to Clinical Parameters in Japanese Children [PDF]
The aim of this study was to evaluate the carotid arterial intima-media thickness (IMT) and its relation to clinical parameters in Japanese children.
Hirao, Tomohiro +3 more
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Impact of Medical TV Shows on the Surgical Knowledge of Non-Healthcare Students of Lahore, Pakistan
Saleha Azeem,1 Biah Mustafa,1 Aman Salaam Ahmad,2 Sumara Rashid,3 Minaam Farooq,1 Tariq Rasheed4 1School of Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan; 2School of Medicine, Shalamar Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan ...
Azeem S +5 more
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Association between screen time and depression among US adults
Epidemiological surveys conducted in general populations have found that the prevalence of depression is about 9% in the United States. World Health Organization has projected that depression will be leading cause of disease burden by the year 2030 ...
K.C. Madhav +2 more
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Influence of tv programmes on diets, obesity and cholesterolemia in school girls
Abuse in TV watching means children dedicating too many hours which should be invested in some other activities as games, and sports. It also means pigging out on junk, including in their diet those industrial products highly caloric and poor in ...
Francisco Javier Barbancho Cisneros +5 more
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Television viewing habits and their influence on physical activity and childhood overweight
OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence of television (TV) viewing habits and their association with childhood sedentary lifestyle and overweight in 8-year-old children, from a cohort in a city in Southern Brazil.METHODS: A prospective cohort study with ...
Gisele F. Dutra +3 more
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Ejercicio físico y estilo de vida sedentario: consecuencias para la salud [PDF]
Perhaps the greatest barriers for achieving major advances in public health in the twenty-first century result from the paralysis of the pandemic paradigm or from the widespread inability to envision alternative or new models of thought.
Alves, Susana +10 more
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SMARTPHONES, TABLETS AND COMPUTERS USAGE TO ACCESS TV-RELATED CONTENT
Smartphones, tablets or computers used to access TV content aren`t working in their contexts of use. Through an document analysis in 57 sites and 17 applications, an online questionnaire with 156 responses and 25 semi-structured interviews, it was found ...
Eduardo Rangel Brandão +1 more
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Strengthening Incentives for Student Effort and Learning: Michigan’s Merit Award Program? [PDF]
[Excerpt] One of the primary reasons American students learn a good deal less during secondary school than students in other industrialized nations is that they devote less time and intellectual energy to the task.1 Accountability systems designed to get
Bishop, John H.
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