access to a computer at home scored the highest. Students who gained a television in the bedroom over the course of the school year scored lower in all areas than those who had their TV taken away during the same period. The researchers did not find a consistent negative association between test scores and the amount of television watched per week.

"Educators and parents are looking for ways to improve children's standardized test scores. This study suggests that something as logical and straightforward as taking TV sets out of kids' bedrooms, or not putting them there in the first place, may be a solution," said the co-author of the study, Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH, an associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at Stanford University and director of the Center for Healthy Weight at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. "While this study does not prove that bedroom TV sets caused the lower test scores, it adds to accumulating data that kids shouldn't have TVs in their bedrooms. It also suggests that investing in a home computer for a child to use may be an additional strategy to help your child's test scores. The best combination was having both: no TV in the bedroom and also a home computer to use."

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Contact: Tim Parsons
paffairs@jhsph.edu
410-955-6878
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
4-Jul-2005

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