Associations of preschool reactive bed-sharing with sociodemographic factors, sleep disturbance, and psychopathology.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To advance understanding of early childhood bed-sharing and its clinical significance, we examined reactive bed-sharing rates, sociodemographic correlates, persistence, and concurrent and longitudinal associations with sleep disturbances and psychopathology.

Methods

Data from a representative cohort of 917 children (mean age 3.8 years) recruited from primary pediatric clinics in a Southeastern city for a preschool anxiety study were used. Sociodemographics and diagnostic classifications for sleep disturbances and psychopathology were obtained using the Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA), a structured diagnostic interview administered to caregivers. A subsample of 187 children was re-assessed approximately 24.7 months after the initial PAPA interview.

Re

SUBMITTER: Marakovitz SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10193615 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature