Abstracts by keywords: digital media
Digital media consumption in western industrialized countries is becoming increasingly widespread. These include the use of computers, online services, smartphones, game consoles and television (Colombani & Videlaine, 2013). All of these digital media make up a large proportion of children and young people's leisure activities (Feierabend, Plankenhorn, Rathgeb & Behrens, 2017a, 2017b). Current study results by Feierabend et al. (2017b) show that 98% of German households are equipped with media devices, usually with a large number of them. At the same time, industrialized countries are increasingly confronted with diseases of affluence such as obesity and overweight, which, in addition to the health impairment, also represent a corresponding financial burden on the health systems (Branca, Nikogosian & Lobstein, 2007; Bader, 2012). Data from the Robert Koch Institute's Child and Adolescent Health Survey (KiGGS) show that in 2008, 15% of 3 to 17-year-old German children and adolescents were overweight. Of these, 6.3% are affected by obesity (Kurth & Schaffrath Rosario, 2010). It is questionable which intervention programs can successfully reduce screen time and whether they actually have an influence on BMI. It is possible that digital media can even be used as an opportunity to exercise and thus have a positive influence on BMI.