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What Needs to Happen Now?

Victor C. Strasburger, MD

JAMA. 2009;301(21):2265-2266.

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Physicians underestimate the influence of the media on children and adolescents.¹ On average, children and adolescents spend more than 6 hours a day with media—more time than in formal classroom instruction.² In addition, US youth have unprecedented access to media (two-thirds have a television set in their bedrooms, half have a VCR or DVD player, half have a video game console, and almost one-third have Internet access or a computer²), making parental monitoring of media use difficult. A recent survey of 365 pediatricians found that only half recommend limiting media use to 1 to 2 hours per day (the recommended American Academy of Pediatrics policy) and half were not interested in learning more about media effects on their patients through media education.³ But the media have an influence on a variety of health issues, such as sex, drugs, aggressive behavior, obesity, eating disorders, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque.

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