Behaviors of young people are influenced at many levels (individual, peer, family, school community and society) and in many venues. Adolescents spend the vast majority of their waking hours at home or at school. Further understanding of the adolescents’ perception of their home and school environment is crucial to understanding risk and protective factors for certain behaviors.

Television (TV) viewing, computer usage, and video/DVD usage are all considered sedentary behaviors. Child and adolescent TV viewing, in particular, is associated with childhood and adult obesity ^1-4 and youth who engage in less than two hours of TV viewing per day tend to be more active.⁵ Computer usage and video game playing are associated with physical inactivity among adolescents ⁶ and young adults.⁷. Among high school students nationwide in 2007, 35% watched television 3 or more hours per day on an average school day. From 1999 to 2007, percent of students who watched television 3 or more hours per day decreased significantly in Hawaii (45% to 30%) and nationally; however, experts fear that this decrease is mainly due to television time being replaced by another sedentary behavior, video game and non-academic computer use.

¹Crespo CJ, Smith E, Troian RP, Bartlett SJ, Macera CA, Anderson RE. Television watching, energy intake, and obesity in US children. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2001;155:360-365.
² Hancox RJ, Poulton R. Watching television is associated with childhood obesity: but is it clinically important? International Journal of Obesity 2006;30(1):171-175.
³ Kaur H, Choi WS, Mayo MS, Harris KJ. Duration of television watching is associated with increased body mass index. Journal of Pediatrics 2003;143(4):506-511.
⁴Lowry R, Wechsler H, Galuska D, Fulton J, Kann L. Television viewing and its associations with overweight, sedentary lifestyle, and insufficient consumption of fruits and vegetables among US high school students: differences by race, ethnicity, and gender. Journal of School Health 2002; 72(10):413-421.⁵ Utter J, Neumark-Sztainer D, Jeffery R, Story M. Couch potatoes or french fries: are sedentary behaviors associated with body mass index, physical activity, and dietary behaviors among adolescents? Journal of the American Dietetic Association 2003;103(10):1298-1305.⁶ The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation. Generation M: media in the lives of 8-18 year-olds. The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, Washington D.C., 2005.
⁷Fotheringham MJ, Wonnacott RL, Owen N. Computer use and physical inactivity in young adults: public health perils and potentials of new information technologies. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 2000;22:269-275.

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