Parents and children sleeping together: cosleeping prevalence and concerns.
Review of the cosleeping literature yields a very limited body of prevalence research, only a small portion of which involves psychiatric populations. An archival records review of child and adolescent urban outpatients suggests that prevalence has been underestimated in the literature and that cosleeping is associated with child and parent anxiety and issues of separation and sleep management, rather than with inappropriate sexual contact.
D000293:Adolescent; D001010:Anxiety, Separation / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D012890:Sleep; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D012931:Social Environment; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*