Factors associated with media use for parenting information: A cross-sectional study among parents of children aged 0-8 years.
Irene N Fierloos, Dafna A Windhorst, Yuan Fang and 5 others
PMID 34672428WHAT IT FOUND
Among 658 parents of children aged 0 to 8, 77.4% used media for parenting information.
More questions, younger parents, younger children, and tips from personal contacts were linked with use.
Key findings
0177.4% of parents used media for parenting information.
02Parenting websites were the most common source: 6.2% used them often and 55.6% used them sometimes.
03Parents with more questions or concerns and parents who received parenting information from personal contacts had higher odds of overall media use, while older parents and parents of older children had lower odds.
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What it does not show
658 of 979 baseline participants were analysed, so the final sample was smaller than the recruited baseline group. Excluded or lost participants were more often fathers, parents with lower education, and parents with a migration background, so the results may not represent these groups. Only 35 of 658 respondents were fathers, limiting what the study can say about fathers. The study measured associations at one time point, so it cannot show whether media use caused more questions or whether questions caused media use. Media use and parenting concerns were self-reported.
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The supplied text does not include a conflict-of-interest or funding statement; the publication types note non-U.S. government research support.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read these associations as proof that media use causes parenting concerns or that directing parents to media improves outcomes. The study did not test an intervention and cannot show causality.