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The association of mothers’ and fathers’ insomnia symptoms with school-aged children’s sleep assessed by parent report and in-home sleep-electroencephalography
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Urfer-Maurer, Natalie, Weidmann, Rebekka, Brand, Serge, Holsboer-Trachsler, Edith, Grob, Alexander, Weber, Peter and Lemola, Sakari (2017) The association of mothers’ and fathers’ insomnia symptoms with school-aged children’s sleep assessed by parent report and in-home sleep-electroencephalography. Sleep Medicine, 38 . pp. 64-70. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2017.07.010 ISSN 1389-9457.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2017.07.010
Abstract
Objective
Sleep plays an essential role for children's well-being. Because children's sleep is associated with parental sleep patterns, it must be considered in the family context. As a first aim of the present study, we test whether parental insomnia symptoms are related to children's in-home sleep-electroencephalography (EEG). Second, we examine the association between parental insomnia symptoms and maternal and paternal perception of children's sleep using actor–partner interdependence models.
Methods
A total of 191 healthy children enrolled in public school and aged 7–12 years took part in the study. Ninety-six were formerly very preterm born children. Children underwent in-home sleep-EEG, and parents reported children's sleep-related behavior by using the German version of the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire. Further, parents completed the Insomnia Severity Index to report their own insomnia symptoms.
Results
Maternal but not paternal insomnia symptoms were related to less children's EEG-derived total sleep time, more stage 2 sleep, less slow wave sleep, later sleep onset time, and later awakening time. Mothers' and fathers' own insomnia symptoms were related to their reports of children's bedtime resistance, sleep duration, sleep anxiety, night wakings, and/or daytime sleepiness. Moreover, maternal insomnia symptoms were associated with paternal reports of children's bedtime resistance, sleep anxiety, and sleep-disordered breathing. The associations between parental insomnia symptoms and parents' perception of children's sleep could not be explained by children's objectively measured sleep.
Conclusions
Mothers' insomnia symptoms and children's objective sleep patterns are associated. Moreover, the parents' own insomnia symptoms might bias their perception of children's sleep-related behavior problems.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sleep Medicine | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1389-9457 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 October 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 38 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 64-70 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.07.010 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 July 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 July 2018 | ||||||||
Grant number: | 143962 | ||||||||
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