Parents, preschoolers, and napping: the development and psychometric properties of two Nap Belief Scales in two independent samples.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Most children cease napping between 2 and 5 years old. Little is known about the predictors of this cessation. Parents' sleep-related beliefs aid in understanding children's nighttime sleep behaviors, but few index daytime sleep beliefs.

Methods

Two measures of parents' napping beliefs were developed and evaluated-the Parents' Nap Beliefs Scale (14 items) and the Reasons Children Nap Scale (19 items). Canadian parents of 1-5-year-old children completed these questionnaires and other sleep-related measures in independent pilot (n = 201) and replication (n = 702) samples. In the replication sample, a subsample of parents also completed 1-3 weeks of daily sleep diaries. The samples were representative of the Canadian population by ethnicity and region

SUBMITTER: Newton AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12713905 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature