Children's Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences Surviving and Thriving in Families.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to disrupt the lives of families and may have implications for children with existing sleep problems. As such, we aimed to: (1) characterize sleep changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in children who had previously been identified as having sleep problems, (2) identify factors contributing to sleep changes due to COVID-19 safety measures, and (3) understand parents' and children's needs to support sleep during the pandemic.

Methods

Eighty-five Canadian parents with children aged 4-14 years participated in this explanatory sequential, mixed-methods study using an online survey of children's and parents' sleep, with a subset of 16 parents, selected based on changes in their children's sleep, participating in semi-structured int

SUBMITTER: MacKenzie NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8522399 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature