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)?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
336
This handout is two pages and is part of the Connected Kids Program, American Academy of Pediatrics
Multimedia program available at www.playnicely.org.
Standard care in primary care clinic.
Vanderbilt University Pediatric Primary Care Clinic
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Changes in media viewing habits
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?"
Time frame: Baseline and 2-4 weeks
Changes in exposure to violence.
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?"
Time frame: Baseline and 2-4 weeks
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