Short Sleep Duration: Children’s Mental, Behavioral, and Developmental Disorders and Demographic, Neighborhood, and Family Context in a Nationally Representative Sample, 2016–2019

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Claussen, Angelika H. ; Dimitrov, Lina V. ; Bhupalam, Sivapriya ; Wheaton, Anne G. ; Danielson, Melissa L.
• Description:
  Introduction
  
  Many children and adolescents experience insufficient sleep, which poses risks for their short- and long-term health and development. This study examined the concurrent associations of contextual factors, including child, demographic, neighborhood, and family factors, with short sleep duration.
  
  Methods
  
  We combined data on children aged 3 to 17 years from the 2016–2019 National Survey of Children's Health (N = 112,925) to examine the association of parent-reported child short sleep duration (ages 3–5 y, <10 h; 6–12 y, <9 h; 13–17 y, <8 h) with mental, behavioral, and developmental disorders (MBDDs); selected physical health conditions; and demographic, neighborhood, and family factors.
  
  Results
  
  Overall, 34.7% of children experienced short sleep duration. The prevalence was highest among children aged 6 to 12 years (37.5%); children from racial and ethnic minority groups, especially non-Hispanic Black children (50.0%); children from low-income households (44.9%); children with an MBDD (39.6%); children experiencing negative neighborhood factors (poor conditions and lack of safety, support, and amenities, 36.5%); and family factors such as inconsistent bedtime (57.3%), poor parental mental (47.5%) and physical health (46.0%), and adverse childhood experiences (44.1%). The associations between sleep and demographic, neighborhood, and family factors, and MBDD remained significant after controlling for all other factors.
  
  Conclusion
  
  This study identified several individual, family, and community factors that may contribute to children’s short sleep duration and can be targeted to improve healthy development, particularly among children with an MBDD, from households with low socioeconomic status, or from racial and ethnic minority groups who are at increased risk for short sleep duration.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Child Developmental Disabilities Ethnicity Family Characteristics Humans Minority Groups Sleep
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 2023; 20
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd20.220408
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  37441755
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10364829
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  20
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
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