Food and beverage cues in children's television programmes: the influence of programme genre
| Autor: | Jean Saunders, Alan P. Macken, Paul Scully, Clodagh S. O'Gorman, Colum P. Dunne, Walter Cullen, Des Leddin, Orlaith Reid, Mark Healy |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Television viewing Pediatric Obesity Medicine (miscellaneous) Childhood obesity Beverages Candy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine beverage Irish children Dietary Sucrose 030225 pediatrics medicine Humans Product (category theory) Television advertising Child Marketing 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics High prevalence food Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Advertising television medicine.disease Research Papers language.human_language United Kingdom Diet nutritional content language Fast Foods Product placement Television Cues Snacks Psychology Ireland Social motivation |
| Zdroj: | Public Health Nutr |
| ISSN: | 1368-9800 |
| Popis: | ObjectiveThe link between childhood obesity and both television viewing and television advertising have previously been examined. We sought to investigate the frequency and type of food and beverage placements in children-specific television broadcasts and, in particular, differences between programme genres.MethodContent of five weekdays of children-specific television broadcasting on both UK (BBC) and Irish (RTE) television channels was summarized. Food and beverage placements were coded based on type of product, product placement, product use and characters involved. A comparison was made between different programme genres: animated, cartoon, child-specific, film, quiz, tween and young persons’ programming.ResultsA total of 1155 (BBC=450; RTE=705) cues were recorded giving a cue every 4·2 min, an average of 12·3 s/cue. The genre with most cues recorded was cartoon programming (30·8 %). For the majority of genres, cues related to sweet snacks (range 1·8–23·3 %) and sweets/candy (range 3·6–25·8 %) featured highly. Fast-food (18·0 %) and sugar-sweetened beverage (42·3 %) cues were observed in a high proportion of tween programming. Celebratory/social motivation factors (range 10–40 %) were most common across all genres while there were low proportions of cues based on reward, punishment or health-related motivating factors.ConclusionsThe study provides evidence for the prominence of energy-dense/nutrient-poor foods and beverages in children’s programming. Of particular interest is the high prevalence of fast-food and sugar-sweetened beverage cues associated with tween programming. These results further emphasize the need for programme makers to provide a healthier image of foods and beverages in children’s television. |
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