An Interactive Smartphone App, Nenne Navi, for Improving Children's Sleep: Pilot Usability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthy sleep is important not only for physical health but also for brain development in children. Several reports have revealed that Japanese adults and children have later bedtimes and shorter sleep durations compared with those in other countries, possibly because of Japanese culture and lifestyles. Therefore, an intervention tool that is suitable to the Japanese sociocultural environment is urgently needed to improve children's sleep problems in their early years.

Objective

To provide appropriate sleep health literacy to caregivers and change their parenting behavior, we developed a smartphone app that allows reciprocal interaction between caregivers and pediatric sleep experts. This paper describes a preliminary study to examine the app's basic design and fu

SUBMITTER: Yoshizaki A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7738258 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature