Sleep health in young children living with socioeconomic adversity.

ABSTRACT: Racially and ethnically diverse young children who live with socioeconomic adversity are at high risk for sleep deficiency, but few behavioral sleep interventions (BSIs) are tailored to their needs. To support the future development of a feasible, acceptable, and culturally relevant sleep intervention, we conducted a community-engaged, mixed-methods study with 40 low-income, racially, and ethnically diverse parents to describe sleep characteristics, sleep habits, and parental sleep knowledge of their 6-36-month-old children and to examine the associations between children's sleep characteristics and sleep habits. This report presents quantitative data from this mixed-methods study. We measured objective (actigraphy) and parent-reported sleep (Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire) characteristi

SUBMITTER: Ordway MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7368803 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature