Infant television and video exposure associated with limited parent-child verbal interactions in low socioeconomic status households

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 411-417

  Mendelsohn, Alan L ^a   Berkule, Samantha B ^a   Tomopoulos, Suzy ^a   Tamis LeMonda, Catherine S ^b   Huberman, Harris S ^a,d   Alvir, Jose ^c   Dreyer, Benard P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT CHILD VERBAL INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; RISK; SOCIAL STATUS; TELEVISION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SOCIAL CLASS; TELEVISION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 43049116564     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.162.5.411     Document Type: Article

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