- Title
- Prevalence of night sleep duration, sleep quality and sleep hygiene practices among children attending childcare services in New South Wales, Australia
- Creator
- Grady, Alice; Dodds, Pennie; Jones, Jannah; Wolfenden, Luke; Yoong, Serene
- Relation
- NHMRC.1083927 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1083927
- Relation
- Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health Vol. 55, Issue 1, p. 59-65
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.14106
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Aim: To describe parent-reported child: (i) sleep duration; (ii) sleep quality; (iii) sleep hygiene practices; and (iv) the proportion of children meeting sleep duration recommendations. Methods: A convenience sample of parents of Australian pre-school-aged children (3-5 years) were surveyed from the Hunter New England region of New South Wales. The cross-sectional survey was conducted via computer-assisted telephone interview. The survey assessed parent and child demographic characteristics and parent-reported child sleep duration, quality and sleep hygiene practices. Results: A total of 488 eligible parents or guardians took part in the study. Parents reported that children slept an average of 11.03 h per night. Approximately 96% of children met daily sleep duration recommendations from sleep guidelines for their age group. The majority of parents reported that their child had 'good' sleep quality (86.89%). Almost 40% reported that their child woke at least once a night. Sleep hygiene practices were relatively well established; however, a small proportion of parents indicated that they had no rules surrounding bedtime (13.52%) or television use before bed (14.52%). Conclusions: The current study describes the sleep duration, quality and sleep hygiene practices of a sample of pre-school-aged children in New South Wales, Australia. Future research using objective measures of sleep duration and hygiene, as well as assessing a broader spectrum of sleep hygiene practices, is needed.
- Subject
- pre-school; recommendations; sleep duration; sleep hygiene; sleep quality
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1411791
- Identifier
- uon:36384
- Identifier
- ISSN:1034-4810
- Language
- eng
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