The longitudinal association of young children's everyday routines to sleep duration.
BACKGROUND
Everyday routines promote children's health. In the present study, we examined whether children's participation in everyday routines at ages 4 and 6 years predicted their sleep duration at age 6 years.


METHODS
A secondary analysis of data was performed for 177 families who participated in the Rochester Preschool Children Injuries Study. Mothers were interviewed when their children were ages 4 and 6 years and reported on their children's everyday routines and perceived sleep duration. Relationships were examined by multiple hierarchical regression analysis.


RESULTS
It was found that children who participated in more frequent routines at age 4 years were more likely to do so at age 6 years. Children's inadequate sleep duration at age 6 years was predicted by less frequent routines at age 6 years and by inadequate sleep duration at age 4 years after controlling for mothers' ethnicity, mothers' education, and family structure. An indirect relationship of routines at age 4 years to sleep at age 6 years through routines at age 6 years was found.


CONCLUSIONS
Continuous engagement in everyday routines seems to play an important role in children's sleep acquisition.
Christina
C
Koulouglioti
Robert
R
Cole
Marian
M
Moskow
Brenda
B
McQuillan
Margaret-Ann
MA
Carno
Annette
A
Grape
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D012890:Sleep
Routines; children; sleep