| Autor: |
Marie-Hélène Pennestri, Christopher Kalogeropoulos, Rebecca Burdayron, Christine Laganière, Karine Dubois-Comtois, Marie-Julie Béliveau |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
BMJ Open, Vol 12, Iss 8 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2044-6055 |
| DOI: |
10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060558 |
| Popis: |
Objectives Given that postpartum sleep is an important family process, further investigations including both mothers and fathers are necessary. The present study aimed to describe and compare sleep patterns and intraindividual night-to-night variability in mothers and fathers at 6 months postpartum using subjective and objective sleep measures.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting General community-based study in Montreal, QC, Canada.Participants Thirty-three couples (mothers and fathers) with no self-reported history of medical and mental health conditions participated in this study.Results Parental sleep was measured across 10 consecutive nights using both a daily sleep diary and actigraphy. Results demonstrated that mothers’ subjective and objective sleep was more fragmented compared with fathers (shorter longest consecutive sleep duration and more nocturnal awakenings; p0.05), actigraphy indicated that mothers obtained significantly longer nocturnal sleep duration (448.07 min±36.49 min) than fathers (400.96 min±45.42 min; p |
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