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Parents’ experiences with sleep problems in children aged 1–3 years: a qualitative study from a health promotion perspective

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of parents whose children aged 1–3 years have sleep problems, from a health promotion perspective. Methods: This was a qualitative study, based on semi-structured interviews with 12 mothers in Norway. The material was analysed by qualitat...

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Autores principales: Sviggum, Gro, Sollesnes, Ragnhild, Langeland, Eva
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30289029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2018.1527605
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description Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of parents whose children aged 1–3 years have sleep problems, from a health promotion perspective. Methods: This was a qualitative study, based on semi-structured interviews with 12 mothers in Norway. The material was analysed by qualitative content analysis. Results: Parents experienced problems with getting their children to bed, getting them to fall asleep, and episodes of awakening at night. Parents expressed that it was time-consuming and difficult to teach their children sleep regulation. Parents handled the sleep problems through the following coping strategies: acknowledging challenges, clarifying one’s self-understanding, implementing change measures, and safeguarding family well-being. These coping strategies resulted in this main theme: the health-promoting regulation of interactions, including parents’ strengthening of sleep regulation in their small children and the safeguarding of well-being in the family. Conclusions: Early, individually customized guidance for parents, with a focus on revealing and acknowledging their experiences with sleep problems in children, is essential for parents to find opportunities to cope with such challenges. Appropriate goals seem to be important for them to succeed in strengthening sleep regulation in their children in a more satisfactory way.
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spelling pubmed-61790432018-10-12 Parents’ experiences with sleep problems in children aged 1–3 years: a qualitative study from a health promotion perspective Sviggum, Gro Sollesnes, Ragnhild Langeland, Eva Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being Empirical Studies Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of parents whose children aged 1–3 years have sleep problems, from a health promotion perspective. Methods: This was a qualitative study, based on semi-structured interviews with 12 mothers in Norway. The material was analysed by qualitative content analysis. Results: Parents experienced problems with getting their children to bed, getting them to fall asleep, and episodes of awakening at night. Parents expressed that it was time-consuming and difficult to teach their children sleep regulation. Parents handled the sleep problems through the following coping strategies: acknowledging challenges, clarifying one’s self-understanding, implementing change measures, and safeguarding family well-being. These coping strategies resulted in this main theme: the health-promoting regulation of interactions, including parents’ strengthening of sleep regulation in their small children and the safeguarding of well-being in the family. Conclusions: Early, individually customized guidance for parents, with a focus on revealing and acknowledging their experiences with sleep problems in children, is essential for parents to find opportunities to cope with such challenges. Appropriate goals seem to be important for them to succeed in strengthening sleep regulation in their children in a more satisfactory way. Taylor & Francis 2018-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6179043/ /pubmed/30289029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2018.1527605 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Parents’ experiences with sleep problems in children aged 1–3 years: a qualitative study from a health promotion perspective
title Parents’ experiences with sleep problems in children aged 1–3 years: a qualitative study from a health promotion perspective
title_full Parents’ experiences with sleep problems in children aged 1–3 years: a qualitative study from a health promotion perspective
title_fullStr Parents’ experiences with sleep problems in children aged 1–3 years: a qualitative study from a health promotion perspective
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title_short Parents’ experiences with sleep problems in children aged 1–3 years: a qualitative study from a health promotion perspective
title_sort parents’ experiences with sleep problems in children aged 1–3 years: a qualitative study from a health promotion perspective
topic Empirical Studies
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30289029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2018.1527605
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