Maternal Perceptions of Evidence-Based Early Childhood Sleep Health Promotion Recommendations: An Explanatory Sequential Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this explanatory sequential design study was to better understand caregivers' perceptions about and interest in evidence-based early childhood sleep health promotion recommendations.

Method

A purposeful sample of mothers of 20 1-5-year-old children (10 children exhibiting optimal sleep and 10 children exhibiting insufficient/fragmented sleep) attending a preschool serving a low socio-economic (SES) status metropolitan community were invited to participate in qualitative interviews. Data were coded according to a grounded theory approach and themes were identified within the optimal and suboptimal sleeper groups.

Results

Mothers reported different approaches to managing electronics by optimal/suboptimal sleeper group, with mothers of optimal s

SUBMITTER: Daniel LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10567985 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature