--- abstract: 'A cross sectional descriptive study was conducted involving 10000 students from randomly selected government and private schools of Amritsar district to identify the trends of TV viewing and playing in school children aged 5 years and above, to compare TV viewing in both sexes, different age groups and urban versus rural children and to study the impact of TV viewing and playing on obesity in children. The results showed that TV viewing has replaced outdoor playing in most children, irrespective of age, sex and residence. A positive relation between TV viewing and obesity was also documented.' altloc: - http://www.ojhas.org/issue34/2010-2-6.htm chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - doctor.manmeet@yahoo.com creators_name: - family: Sodhi given: MK honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2010-07-30 date_type: published datestamp: 2010-09-13 03:52:10 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/70/05 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: - Kakkilaya BS editors_name: - family: Kakkilaya given: Srinivas honourific: Dr lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 7005 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/7005/1/2010%2D2%2D6.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Television, play, leisure activity, obesity' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:44 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 2 pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences publisher: Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya refereed: TRUE referencetext: "1.\tJohnson KA, Klaas SJ. The changing nature of play: Implications for pediatric spinal cord injury. J Spinal Cord Med. 2007;30(suppl. 1):S71-S75\r\n2.\tDietz WH. Prevention of childhood obesity. Pediatr. Clin. North Amer. 1986;33:823-833,\r\n3.\tDietz WH, Gortmaker SL. we fatten our children at the television set? Obesity and TV viewing in children and adolescents. Pediatrics.1985;75:807-812, \r\n4.\tTaras HL, Sallis JF et al. Television's influence on children's diet and physical activity. Dev. Behav. Pediatr. 1989;10:176-180 \r\n5.\tFerro-Luzzi A, Martino L. Obesity and Physical inactivity. In Chadwick DJ, Cardew GC, eds. The origins and consequences of obesity. Chichester, Wiley. 1996. pp 207-227,\r\n6.\tShannon B, Peacock J, Brown MJ. Body fatness, TV viewing and caloric intake of a sample of Pennsylvania sixth grade children. J. Nutr. Edu. 1991;23:262-268,\r\n7.\tGordon-Larsen P, Griffiths P, Bentley ME, Ward DS, Kelsey K, Shields K, Ammerman A. Barriers to physical activity: Qualitative data on caregiver-daughter perceptions and practices. Am J Prev Med 2004;27:218-223\r\n8.\tOffice of Population Census and Surveys: General Household Survey, London, Her majesty's Stationary office,1994\r\n9.\tCourt JM. Strategies for management of obesity in children and adolescents. Exercise and Obesity. London. Smith Gordon 1994. pp 181-195.\r\n10.\tEpstein LH. Exercise in treatment of childhood obesity. Int. J. Obes. Relat. Metab. Dis. 1995;19(suppl. 14):S117-121,\r\n11.\tRoss JG, Pate RR. The national children and youth fitness study - II. A summary of findings. J. Phys. Edu. Recr. Dance. 1987;58:51-56,\r\n12.\tGortmaker SL, Must A, Sobol AM. TV viewing as a cause of increasing obesity among children in US, 1986-90. Arch. Pediatr. Adolesc. Med. 1996;150(4):356-36,\r\n13.\tLeung AK, Fagan JE, Cho H et al. Children and Television. Am Fam Physician 1994;50:909\r\n14.\tStanger JD. Television in the home 1998: The Third Annual National Survey Of parents and Children. Philadelphia, PA Annenberg Public Policy Centre. 1998\r\n15.\tRobinson TN. Reducing children's television viewing to prevent obesity : a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 1999;282:1561-1567." relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 16 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2010-09-13 03:52:10 subjects: - OJHAS succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'TV Viewing versus Play - Trends and Impact on Obesity' type: journale userid: 4338 volume: 9