Prevalence and Determinants of Bad Sleep Perception among Italian Children and Adolescents
| Autor: | Giorgio Gronchi, Serena Malloggi, Fiorenza Giganti, Gianluca Ficca, Francesca Conte |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Malloggi, Serena, Conte, Francesca, Gronchi, Giorgio, Ficca, Gianluca, Giganti, Fiorenza |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:Medicine Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine children Surveys and Questionnaires Perception Prevalence subjective sleep quality Humans adolescents 030212 general & internal medicine Circadian rhythm Child Depression (differential diagnoses) media_common Sleep quality lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Sleep in non-human animals Italy Unpleasant dreams Subjective sleep adolescent Sleep Deprivation Sleep Depressed mood Psychology psychological phenomena and processes 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 9363, p 9363 (2020) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 17 Issue 24 |
| Popis: | Although sleep problems at young ages are well investigated, the prevalence of bad sleepers and the determinants of sleep quality perception remain unexplored in these populations. For this purpose, we addressed these issues in a sample of children (n = 307), preadolescents (n = 717), and adolescents (n = 406) who completed the School Sleep Habits Survey, addressing sleep quality perception, sleep habits, sleep features, daytime behavior and sleep disturbances, circadian preference, and dreaming. The sample was split in &ldquo good sleepers&rdquo and &ldquo bad sleepers&rdquo based on the answer to the question item assessing overall subjective sleep quality. Being a bad sleeper was reported by 11.7% of the sample, with significant between-groups differences (children: 8.3% preadolescents: 11.3% adolescents: 15.3% p = 0.01). At all ages, relative to good sleepers, bad sleepers showed higher eveningness, sleepiness, and depression, longer sleep latency, more frequent insufficient sleep, nocturnal awakenings, sleep&ndash wake behavioral problems, and unpleasant dreams (all p&rsquo s &le 0.01). Sleep quality perception was predicted: in children, by depressed mood, eveningness, and unpleasant dreams (all p&rsquo 0.01) in preadolescents, by sleep latency, awakening frequency, depressed mood, sufficiency of sleep, and unpleasant dreams (all p&rsquo s < in adolescents, by awakening frequency, depressed mood, and sufficiency of sleep (all p&rsquo 0.001). In children, bad subjective sleep quality appears to be mainly determined by daytime psychological features, for example, depressed mood, whereas at later ages, sleep characteristics, such as frequent awakenings, add to the former determinants. This could depend on (a) the appearance, with increasing age, of objective sleep modifications and (b) a greater attention paid by adolescents to their sleep characteristics. |
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