Relationships between the home environment and physical activity and dietary patterns of preschool children: a cross-sectional study

Table 2 Relationships between physical home environment and children's amount of small screen entertainment for the previous day using ANOVA (n = 280).

Descriptive Construct	Physical Home Environment Item	Children's Sedentary Activity Mean small screen entertainment score (range = 0–11)				p value
		Frequently	Sometimes	Occasionally	Rarely/Never
Physical activity (transport/play/sport outside home)	Frequency child attends swimming lessons	2.7^a	2.6^ab	3.6^ab	3.6^b	0.002
Rules about small screen entertainment	Frequency that TV is left on in home	3.8^a	3.3^ab	2.9^b	2.5^b	<0.001
	Parents set rules about TV viewing	2.5^a	3.6^b	3.6^b	4.1^b	<0.001
	Parents limit exposure to TV advertising	2.6^a	2.7^a	3.7^b	3.7^b	<0.001
			Yes	No
Presence of small screen entertainment in home	Play station in home		3.5	2.9		0.02
	Internet connection in home		3.0	3.7		0.01
	Computer in home		3.1	3.9		0.07

^a,b Superscripts indicate which categories show a statistically significant difference using Bonferroni correction: same letter indicates no difference, different letter indicates a difference.

ISSN: 1479-5868