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In Michael Rich MD and Miriam Baron's MD study, Child Health in the Information Age: Media Education of Pediatricians, they conduct a survey of 209 pediatric residency programs. This survey compares with and updates information in the 1986 survey The Impact of Television on Children: Current Pediatric Training Practices. Many questions were designed to elicit comparable information as the previous survey as well as incorporating other aspects that were not as significant in 1986, such as the internet and video games.Hypothesis: The objective of this study was to determine what pediatric residency programs are teaching trainees about media and the influence of media on the physical and mental health of children and adolescents. Methodology: Surveys were sent to 209 different pediatric residency programs in 44 states and Puerto Rico. The survey of residency curricular training consisted of 17 items about children's exposure to media including television, movies, popular music, computer/video games and the Internet, the eff
Media literacy is something that we as a nation lack. We teach our children how to talk, to read, to ride a bike, but we don't teach them how to watch TV and how to interprut the messages it brings across. Wouldn't a child be less likely to imitate a violent action he's seen on TV if one of his parents had a talk with him about how TV works. The research was conducted in a very adiquate fashion. I can't think of a better way of gathering this type of information in another manner. However they did make compirmises as far as the survey was concerned. To help garuntee a high level of participation in the survey (204 out of 209) they didn't include any essay type questions, instead were mostly checkbox questions with limited short or numerical answer. While it is important to have as many participants as possible I think that some of the questions would have been benifited by reqiuring a detailed answer. If pediatricians were adiquately trained to deal with this, and instructed to bring it up with parents it would e
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