Table 1 Session content and links with theoretical constructs

1

• Raise awareness of volume of child’s screen use & recommendations

• Knowledge

• Frequency

• Physical environment characteristics

• Recognise benefits of reducing screen use

• Outcome expectancies

• Duration

• Social support/constraints

• Motivation

• Mode

• Reinforcements/rewards

• Self-control/ regulation /goal setting

• Self-monitoring

• Behavioural capability

2

• Correlates of young children’s EM use

• Reinforcements/rewards

• Frequency

• Social and/or physical environment

• Strategies to spend less time in electronic media use – rules, say no, be active instead, have safe places in your home where your child can play on his/her own, encourage your child into other activities, decrease parent electronic media use, no TV in bedroom, no TV during meals, fewer TVs in home, use radio/CD for background noise

• Outcome expectations

• Duration

• Self-efficacy

• Mode

• Knowledge

• Self-monitoring

• Outcome expectancies

• Goal setting

• Motivation

• Self-control/ regulation

• Skills

• Role modelling/ observational learning

3

• Neural networks and what happens in the brain when we try to change behaviour – change, resistance, reinforcement, new behaviour

• Reinforcements/rewards

• Frequency; or

• Social and/or physical environment

• Outcome expectations

• Duration; or

• Self-efficacy

• Mode

• Knowledge

• Self-monitoring

• Outcome expectancies

• Goal setting

• Motivation

• Self-control

• Self-regulation

4

• Behaviour change strategies – monitoring (and re-monitoring when necessary), planning (for normal and unusual days), goal setting (record goals, review), challenge identification & problem solving, praise and reinforcement

• Reinforcements/ rewards

• Frequency; or

• Social and/or physical environment

• Outcome expectations

• Duration; or

• Self-efficacy

• Mode

• Knowledge

• Self-monitoring

• Motivation

• Goal setting

• Super family challenge – no electronic media for entertainment for the whole family for the whole week

• Emotional coping responses

• Skills

• Self-control/ regulation

5

• Relapse prevention

• Reinforcements/rewards

• Frequency; or

• Social and/or physical environment

• How to manage high risk situations

• Outcome expectations

• Duration; or

• Taking care of yourself

• Self-efficacy

• Mode

• Knowledge

• Self-monitoring

• Motivation

• Goal setting

• Outcome expectations

• Skills

• Emotional coping responses

• Behavioural capability

• Motivation

• Self-control/regulation

• Outcome expectancies

• Reinforcements/ rewards

Fathers’ session

• Electronic media recommendations

• Reinforcements/rewards

• Frequency, duration and mode

• Social and/or physical environment

• Benefits of reducing electronic media

• Outcome expectations

• Self-monitoring

• Importance of dads, dad-focused activities to do with child, especially Rough & Tumble play

• Self-efficacy

• Goal setting

• Knowledge

• Skills

• Motivation

• Behavioural capability

• Outcome expectancies

• Self-control/regulation