Effects of the Home Environment on School-Aged Children's Sleep
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James C. Spilsbury, Amy Storfer‐Isser, Dennis Drotar, Carol L. Rosen, H. Lester Kirchner, Susan Redline
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Results indicate that a parenting style encouraging social maturity in children is linked to healthier sleep patterns.
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STUDY OBJECTIVE: Examine the relationship between the sleep behavior of elementary school-aged children and characteristics of the home environment. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of children participating in a cohort study. SETTING: Cleveland Children's Sleep and Health Study, an ethnically mixed, urban, community-based cohort. PARTICIPANTS: Four hundred forty-nine children (50% girls, 46% African-American) aged 8 to 11 years. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Sleep and health data were obtained from a child-completed 7-day sleep journal and caregiver-completed health and sleep questionnaire. Home-environment predictors were Middle-Childhood Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (MC-HOME) total score and Encouragement of Maturity and Physical Environment subscale scores. Sleep outcomes were mean nightly sleep duration, night-to-night variation in sleep duration, and bedtime of 11 PM or later. Adjusted analyses showed that higher Encouragement of Maturity subscale scores were associated with longer sleep duration (P < .05) and decreased odds of a bedtime at 11 PM or later (odds ratio = .74, 95% confidence interval, .58-.95). In girls, higher Encouragement of Maturity scores were also associated with decreased nightly variation in mean sleep duration (P < .001). Increases in total MC-HOME score were associated with increased mean sleep duration among African-American children only (P < .05). CONCLUSION: Collectively, results indicate that a parenting style encouraging social maturity in children is linked to healthier sleep patterns.
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