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Children’s Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences Surviving and Thriving in Families
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 pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8522399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34472600 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsab075 |
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author | MacKenzie, Nicole E Keys, Elizabeth Hall, Wendy A Gruber, Reut Smith, Isabel M Constantin, Evelyn Godbout, Roger Stremler, Robyn Reid, Graham J Hanlon-Dearman, Ana Brown, Cary A Shea, Sarah Weiss, Shelly K Ipsiroglu, Osman Witmans, Manisha Chambers, Christine T Andreou, Pantelis Begum, Esmot Corkum, Penny |
author_facet | MacKenzie, Nicole E Keys, Elizabeth Hall, Wendy A Gruber, Reut Smith, Isabel M Constantin, Evelyn Godbout, Roger Stremler, Robyn Reid, Graham J Hanlon-Dearman, Ana Brown, Cary A Shea, Sarah Weiss, Shelly K Ipsiroglu, Osman Witmans, Manisha Chambers, Christine T Andreou, Pantelis Begum, Esmot Corkum, Penny |
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description | 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 interviews. Families had previously participated in the Better Nights, Better Days (BNBD) randomized controlled trial. RESULTS: While some parents perceived their child’s sleep quality improved during the COVID-19 pandemic (14.1%, n = 12), many parents perceived their child’s sleep had worsened (40.0%, n = 34). Parents attributed children’s worsened sleep to increased screen time, anxiety, and decreased exercise. Findings from semi-structured interviews highlighted the effect of disrupted routines on sleep and stress, and that stress reciprocally influenced children’s and parents’ sleep. CONCLUSIONS: The sleep of many Canadian children was affected by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the disruption of routines influencing children’s sleep. eHealth interventions, such as BNBD with modifications that address the COVID-19 context, could help families address these challenges. |
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spelling | pubmed-85223992021-10-20 Children’s Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences Surviving and Thriving in Families MacKenzie, Nicole E Keys, Elizabeth Hall, Wendy A Gruber, Reut Smith, Isabel M Constantin, Evelyn Godbout, Roger Stremler, Robyn Reid, Graham J Hanlon-Dearman, Ana Brown, Cary A Shea, Sarah Weiss, Shelly K Ipsiroglu, Osman Witmans, Manisha Chambers, Christine T Andreou, Pantelis Begum, Esmot Corkum, Penny J Pediatr Psychol COVID-19 Articles 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 interviews. Families had previously participated in the Better Nights, Better Days (BNBD) randomized controlled trial. RESULTS: While some parents perceived their child’s sleep quality improved during the COVID-19 pandemic (14.1%, n = 12), many parents perceived their child’s sleep had worsened (40.0%, n = 34). Parents attributed children’s worsened sleep to increased screen time, anxiety, and decreased exercise. Findings from semi-structured interviews highlighted the effect of disrupted routines on sleep and stress, and that stress reciprocally influenced children’s and parents’ sleep. CONCLUSIONS: The sleep of many Canadian children was affected by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the disruption of routines influencing children’s sleep. eHealth interventions, such as BNBD with modifications that address the COVID-19 context, could help families address these challenges. Oxford University Press 2021-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8522399/ /pubmed/34472600 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsab075 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_modelThis article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model) |
spellingShingle | COVID-19 Articles MacKenzie, Nicole E Keys, Elizabeth Hall, Wendy A Gruber, Reut Smith, Isabel M Constantin, Evelyn Godbout, Roger Stremler, Robyn Reid, Graham J Hanlon-Dearman, Ana Brown, Cary A Shea, Sarah Weiss, Shelly K Ipsiroglu, Osman Witmans, Manisha Chambers, Christine T Andreou, Pantelis Begum, Esmot Corkum, Penny Children’s Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences Surviving and Thriving in Families |
title | Children’s Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences
Surviving and Thriving in Families |
title_full | Children’s Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences
Surviving and Thriving in Families |
title_fullStr | Children’s Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences
Surviving and Thriving in Families |
title_full_unstemmed | Children’s Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences
Surviving and Thriving in Families |
title_short | Children’s Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences
Surviving and Thriving in Families |
title_sort | children’s sleep during covid-19: how sleep influences
surviving and thriving in families |
topic | COVID-19 Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8522399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34472600 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsab075 |
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