Screen-based activities and physical complaints among adolescents from the Nordic countries
| dc.contributor.author | Torsheim, Torbjørn | |
| dc.contributor.author | Eriksson, Lilly | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schnohr, Christina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hansen, Fredrik | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bjarnason, Thoroddur | |
| dc.contributor.author | Välimaa, Raili | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-05-04T09:29:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-05-04T09:29:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Torsheim T, Eriksson L, Schnohr CW, Hansen F, Bjarnason T, Välimaa R. (2010). Screen-based activities and physical complaints among adolescents from the Nordic countries. BMC Public Health 2010, 10:324. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/26871 | |
| dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND: A positive association between time spent on sedentary screen-based activities and physical complaints has been reported, but the cumulative association between different types of screen-based activities and physical complaints has not been examined thoroughly. METHODS: The cross-sectional association between screen-based activity and physical complaints (backache and headache) among students was examined in a sample of 31022 adolescents from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Greenland, as part of the Health behaviour in school-aged children 2005/06 (HBSC) study. Daily hours spent on screen-based activities and levels of physical complaints were assessed using self-reports. RESULTS: Logistic regression analysis indicated that computer use, computer gaming and TV viewing contributed uniquely to prediction of weekly backache and headache. The magnitude of associations was consistent across types of screen based activities, and across gender. CONCLUSION: The observed associations indicate that time spent on screen-based activity is a contributing factor to physical complaints among young people, and that effects accumulate across different types of screen-based activities. | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | BioMed Central | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | BMC Public Health | |
| dc.relation.uri | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/324 | |
| dc.relation.uri | ||
| dc.subject.other | ruutuaika | |
| dc.subject.other | oireet | |
| dc.subject.other | nuoret | |
| dc.subject.other | screen-based activities | |
| dc.subject.other | self-rated complaints | |
| dc.subject.other | adolescents | |
| dc.subject.other | fyysinen kunto | |
| dc.title | Screen-based activities and physical complaints among adolescents from the Nordic countries | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2011050410730 | |
| dc.contributor.laitos | Terveystieteiden laitos | fi |
| dc.contributor.laitos | Department of Health Sciences | en |
| dc.contributor.oppiaine | ||
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | |
| dc.type.coar | journal article | |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | peerReviewed | |
| dc.relation.issn | 1471-2458 | |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
| dc.rights.copyright | © 2010 Torsheim et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
| dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | fi |
| dc.rights.url | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ |
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