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

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01490320

Enrollment

336

Registered

2011-12-12

Start date

2010-06-30

Completion date

2010-09-30

Last updated

2011-12-12

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Conditions

Violence

Keywords

Violence prevention, Media, Primary care, Parenting

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)?

Interventions

BEHAVIORALAAP Handout entitled, Pulling the Plug on Violence.

This handout is two pages and is part of the Connected Kids Program, American Academy of Pediatrics

BEHAVIORALPlay Nicely Program

Multimedia program available at www.playnicely.org.

OTHERControl Group

Standard care in primary care clinic.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 70 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

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.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
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?

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026