TY - JOUR
T1 - Sleep Patterns and Sleep Disruptions in Kindergarten Children
AU - Tikotzky, Liat
AU - Sadeh, Avi
N1 - Funding Information:
The study was supported by Helene and Woolf Marmot. We thank Ornit Arbel for her help throughout the study. Requests for reprints should be sent to Avi Sadeh, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail address: [email protected]
PY - 2001/1/1
Y1 - 2001/1/1
N2 - Assessed sleep patterns and sleep disruptions in kindergarten children and investigated the relation between sleep measures derived from objective and subjective evaluation methods. The sleep patterns of 59 normal kindergarten children (mean age = 5.5 years) were monitored for 4 to 5 consecutive nights by means of activity monitors (actigraph) and by means of parental daily sleep logs. The correlation between the actigraphic measures and the daily parental logs indicated that parents were accurate reporters of sleep schedule measures. However, parents were less accurate in assessing sleep quality measures, significantly underestimating the number of night-wakings and overestimating the quality of their children's sleep. Fragmented sleep was found, by means of activity monitoring, in 41% of the children.
AB - Assessed sleep patterns and sleep disruptions in kindergarten children and investigated the relation between sleep measures derived from objective and subjective evaluation methods. The sleep patterns of 59 normal kindergarten children (mean age = 5.5 years) were monitored for 4 to 5 consecutive nights by means of activity monitors (actigraph) and by means of parental daily sleep logs. The correlation between the actigraphic measures and the daily parental logs indicated that parents were accurate reporters of sleep schedule measures. However, parents were less accurate in assessing sleep quality measures, significantly underestimating the number of night-wakings and overestimating the quality of their children's sleep. Fragmented sleep was found, by means of activity monitoring, in 41% of the children.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15374424JCCP3004_13
DO - 10.1207/S15374424JCCP3004_13
M3 - Article
C2 - 11708244
AN - SCOPUS:0347116149
SN - 1537-4416
VL - 30
SP - 581
EP - 591
JO - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
IS - 4
ER -