Parental Perspectives of Sleep in the Home: Shaping Home–School Partnerships in School-Based Sleep Promotion Initiatives

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Bird, Melissa ; Neely, Kacey C. ; Montemurro, Genevieve ; Mellon, Pamela ; MacNeil, Megan ; Brown, Cary ; Sulz, Lauren ; Storey, Kate
• Description:
  Introduction
  
  Sleep is a critical component of child health and the prevention of chronic disease. Children may benefit from school-based sleep promotion; however, parents need to be involved for healthy sleep strategies learned at school to be translated to the home. The objective of this study was to explore parental perspectives on sleep behaviors and responsiveness to school-based sleep promotion.
  
  Methods
  
  Twenty-five parents of school-aged children were purposively sampled for interviews from July 2019 through April 2020 in Alberta, Canada. Descriptive qualitative methodology was used, and data were generated through semistructured interviews and researcher field notes. Interviews were transcribed and themes were identified by using latent content analysis.
  
  Results
  
  Three themes emerged from analysis: 1) sleep is valued and supported, 2) barriers to healthy sleep exist, and 3) schools are allies in promoting sleep. Parents perceived that sleep was essential for their child’s health, facilitated healthy sleep practices in the home, and highlighted barriers (busy schedules and poor parental role models) that affected sleep. Parents supported and expressed value in school-based sleep promotion and noted factors that affected the success of school-based sleep promotion.
  
  Conclusion
  
  Parents are responsive to school-based sleep promotion. Promotion efforts should include resources that engage and involve parents in the school community. Throughout the development of resources to support school-based sleep promotion, additional consideration of parent-reported barriers to promoting healthy sleep in the home should be included.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Child Health Promotion Humans Parents Schools Sleep
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 2023; 20
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd20.220395
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  37167552
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10199697
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Canada
• Volume:
  20
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
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