Bedtime Schedules and Sleep Regulation among Children of Incarcerated Parents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate variation by parental incarceration history in the bedtime schedules set for elementary-age children and whether sleep was effectively regulated.

Study design

We ran multivariate regression models estimating the relationship between parental incarceration and 6 measures of bedtime schedules and sleep regulation. Our sample included 9-year-olds in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n = 3246), a survey of children born in large US cities between 1998 and 2000 that has an oversample of unmarried mothers.

Results

Children's bedtime schedules did not differ at a statistically significant level by parental incarceration history, but children of ever- vs never-incarcerated fathers had lower odds of consistently adhering to a set bedtime

SUBMITTER: Branigan AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8491564 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature