The Effect of Primary Care Interventions on Children's Media Viewing Habits and Exposure to Violence

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Violence
• Interventions: Behavioral: Play Nicely Program; Other: Control Group; Behavioral: AAP Handout entitled, Pulling the Plug on Violence.

• Registration Number: NCT01490320
• Lead Sponsor: Vanderbilt University

Brief Summary

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents receive anticipatory guidance about violence prevention as part of the routine well child visit. Educational resources are needed to help physicians routinely provide these important anticipatory guidance messages. In this study, consecutive parents will be exposed to routine anticipatory guidance messages before the well child visit with the physician. After the clinic visit, parents will be invited to participate in a research study to determine if they plan any changes at home. The key research question of this study is:

Can a brief multimedia program (i.e. Play Nicely program) and/or the AAP Connected Kids brochure, entitled, "Pulling the Plug on TV Violence", help parents develop plans to decreases their children's exposure to violence in the media (e.g. less media time, no TV in the bedroom)?

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-06
• Primary Completion: 2010-09
• Study Completion: 2010-09
• Status Verified: 2011-12
• Study First Submitted: 2011-12-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-12-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-12-08
• Study First Posted: 2011-12-12
• Last Update Posted: 2011-12-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 336

Inclusion Criteria

• Participants included English and Spanish speaking caregivers of 2-12 year old children presenting to the pediatric primary care clinic for a well-child visit.

Exclusion Criteria

• Parents who could not speak either English or Spanish.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Multimedia intervention	Play Nicely Program	Caregivers assigned to the multimedia group were instructed to watch "Recommendation 3: Decrease Exposure to Violence" from the Play Nicely program, a 5 minute video in English and Spanish that teaches caregivers about the negative impact of violent media and instructs parents about the importance of limiting media. The intervention was presented to the parents on a mobile laptop computer.
Control	Control Group	Parents in control group experienced a routine primary care visit.
Handout intervention	AAP Handout entitled, Pulling the Plug on Violence.	Caregivers assigned to the hand-out group were instructed to read the AAP hand-out "Pulling the Plug On TV Violence." This 2 page hand-out emphasizes the negative effect that television has on children's behavior and makes recommendations about limiting media. The RA did not supervise the reading of the handout.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in media viewing habits	Baseline and 2-4 weeks	At the 2 week follow up phone call, parents were asked: "Since your clinic visit, have you made any changes related to your child's media viewing habits such as TV, movies, or computer games?"
Changes in exposure to violence.	Baseline and 2-4 weeks	At the 2 week follow up phone call, parents were asked: "Since your clinic visit, have you made any changes related to decreasing your child's exposure to violence, either violence in the media or violence at home?"

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Vanderbilt University Pediatric Primary Care Clinic; 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States