Sleep Behavior of Children Born Preterm and Its Relationship with Parental Sleep Quality

Year 2024, Volume: 18 Issue: 5, 306 - 312, 24.09.2024

Fatih Mehmet Akif Özdemir , Halil Celik

https://doi.org/10.12956/tchd.1453803

Abstract

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the sleep characteristics of children born preterm and the relationship between these characteristics and parental sleep quality.
Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the parents of children born preterm were administered the Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).
Results: The study included 89 children born preterm with a current mean age of 38.7±55 months. According to the CSHQ, 95.5% of children had a sleep disorder. According to the PSQI, 48.9% of the mothers, 35.3% of the fathers had poor sleep quality. Maternal and paternal total PSQI scores were significantly correlated (r=0.373, p=0.030). In regression analysis of factors that may affect total CSHQ score, sleep disorder was found to be associated with low maternal education, hemiplegia, no smoking in the home (p=0.001, p<0.001and p<0.001 respectively). When factors that may affect total PSQI score were examined by regression analysis, the odds of poor sleep quality were 5.5 times higher in mothers with a high education level, 4 times higher in mothers with a history of multiple pregnancy (p=0.006 and p=0.027).
Conclusion: Our study revealed a high rate of sleep disorder in children with a history of preterm birth and high rates of poor sleep quality among their parents.

Keywords

Behaviors, Child, Parental, Premature, Sleep

Ethical Statement

Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The ethics committee approval (date: 30.12.2022, meeting number: 12, decision number: 2022/029) was received for the study. We collected no data that could be used to identify patients. We collected no data that could be used to identify patients. Informed consent was obtained from the parents/guardians of the children participating in the study and, when appropriate, assent as obtained from the children themselves. This work described is consistent with the Journal guidelines for ethical publication We confirm that we have read the Journal's position on issues involved in ethical publication and affirm that this report is consistent with those guidelines.

Supporting Institution

YOK

Prematüre Çocukların Uyku Davranışları ve Ebeveyn Uyku Kalitesi ile İlişkisi

Abstract

Amaç: Prematüre doğan çocukların uyku özelliklerini ve bu özellikler ile ebeveyn uyku kalitesi arasındaki ilişkiyi değerlendirmeyi amaçladık.
Gereç ve Yöntemler: Bu kesitsel çalışmada prematüre doğan çocukların ebeveynlerine Çocuk Uyku Alışkanlıkları Anketi (ÇUAA) ve Pittsburgh Uyku Kalitesi İndeksi (PUKİ) uygulandı.
Bulgular: Çalışmaya mevcut yaş ortalaması 38.7±55 ay olan preterm doğan 89 çocuk dahil edildi. ÇUAA’ya göre çocukların %95.5’inde uyku bozukluğu vardı. PUKİ’ye göre annelerin %48.9’u, babaların ise %35.3’ünün uyku kalitesi kötüydü. Anne ile babanın toplam PUKİ puanları arasında anlamlı korelasyon vardı (r=0.373, p=0.030). Toplam ÇUAA puanını etkileyebilecek faktörlerin regresyon analizinde uyku bozukluğunun anne eğitiminin düşük olması, hemipleji, evde sigara içilmemesi ile ilişkili olduğu belirlendi (sırasıyla p=0.001, p<0.001, p<0.001). Toplam PUKİ puanını etkileyebilecek faktörler regresyon analizi ile incelendiğinde, uyku kalitesinin kötü olma ihtimali eğitim düzeyi yüksek olan annelerde 5.5 kat, çoğul gebelik öyküsü olan annelerde 4 kat daha yüksekti (p=0.006 ve p=0.027).
Sonuç: Çalışmamız, preterm doğum öyküsü olan çocuklarda yüksek oranda uyku bozukluğu olduğunu ve ebeveynlerinde yüksek oranda uyku kalitesinin kötü olduğunu ortaya koydu.

Keywords

Davranış, Çocuk, Ebeveyn, Prematüre, Uyku

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