Here is a list of recently published studies on children, media, and health which explore a range of topics:
Early Childhood Care, 179(6), August 2009
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Special Issue:
Music in the early years: Research, theory and practice.
Jenssen, B.P., Klein, J.D., Salazar,L.F., Daluga, N.A., DiClemente , R.J. (2009). Exposure to tobacco on the internet: Content analysis of adolescents' internet use. Pediatrics, 124(2), e180-e186.
- This study is a content analysis of all Web pages viewed by a
random sample of adolescents to describe exposure to tobacco- and
smoking-related text and images.
Morgenstern, M., Sargent, J. D., Hanewinkel, R. (2009). Relation between socioeconomic status and body mass index: Evidence of an indirect path via television use. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 163(8), 731-738.
- This study attempts to test the hypothesis that media use mediates
the relation between socioeconomic status (SES) and body mass index
(BMI).
Solomon,L.J., Bunn, J.Y., Flynn, B.S., Pirie,P.L., Worden,J.K., & Ashikaga, T.(2009). Mass media for smoking cessation in adolescents. Health Educ Behav, 36(4), 642-659.
- This study examined effects of a media campaign on adolescent smoking cessation.
Williams, D., Martins, N., Consalvo, M. & Ivory, J. (2009). The virtual census: Representations of gender, race and age in video games. New Media & Society, 11(5), 815-834.
- This study employs a content analysis of characters in video games to answer questions about their representations of gender, race and age in comparison to the US population.
Use the free CMCH Database of Research to find other studies on children, media, and health.
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