Cross-country comparison of parental reports and objective measures of sleep patterns of typically developing children and autistic children between the UK and South Korea.

Autor: Jeon M; Sleep Education and Research Laboratory, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK. Electronic address: mina.jeon.12@ucl.ac.uk., Neoh MJY; Psychology Program, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore., Esposito G; Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy., Halstead E; Sleep Education and Research Laboratory, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK., Haghighatfard A; Sleep Education and Research Laboratory, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK., Dimitriou D; Sleep Education and Research Laboratory, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Sleep medicine [Sleep Med] 2023 Jan; Vol. 101, pp. 162-177. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Oct 28.
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2022.10.024
Abstrakt: Sleep duration and disturbances in typically developing (TD) children have been found to vary across countries. Given the impact of culture on sleep patterns in TD children, it is also necessary to examine the impact of culture on sleep patterns in children with atypical development. However, previous studies have often relied only on parent reports of children's sleep. Hence, the present study conducted a cross-cultural comparison of sleep duration and disturbances of school-aged TD children and autistic children in the UK and South Korea (hereafter Korea) using both subjective and objective sleep measurements. Cultural differences were observed in both actigraphy measures and parent reports of children's sleep duration and disturbances. Both TD children and autistic children in Korea had a later bedtime, later getting up time and shorter nocturnal sleep duration than their peers in the UK (p < .05). Furthermore, greater parent-reported sleep disturbances were reported in TD children in Korea compared to TD children in the UK and in autistic children in the UK compared to autistic children in Korea. Correlational analyses indicated that most parent-reported measures of children's sleep did not significantly correlate with objective measures and child reports, suggesting that studies on children's sleep can benefit by collecting data from multiple sources. Taken together, these findings suggest a cultural influence on sleep duration and disturbances of both TD children and autistic children. This study raises questions for further research to identify factors underlying cultural differences in children's sleep duration and disturbances.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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