title: Sleep problems in urban, minority, early-school-aged children more prevalent than previously recognized.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To use the children's sleep habits questionnaire (CSHQ) to characterize sleep problems in a group of 5- to 6-year-old minority children living in urban communities and to compare our findings with data from 5- to 6-year-old children in the original CSHQ validation study.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study design was used to collect sleep data from parents using the CSHQ.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The CSHQ was completed by 160 parents; 150 (94%) scored ≥41, indicating a sleep problem. The prevalence of having sleep problems for our minority community sample was significantly higher than the original community sample (94% vs. 23%, P < .001). The minority sample also had significantly higher mean total CSHQ scores (51.5 vs 37.9, P < .001) and higher scores across all 8 subscales of the CSHQ (P < .001 for all comparisons).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results suggest that sleep problems may be more prevalent in urban, early-school-aged minority children than previously reported.
authors: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA. bjs4@columbia.edu
authors: Beverley J
authors: BJ
authors: Sheares
authors: Meyer
authors: M
authors: Kattan
authors: Cheng-Shiun
authors: CS
authors: Leu
authors: Carin I
authors: CI
authors: Lamm
authors: Karen B
authors: KB
authors: Dorsey
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Evans
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D054525:Minority Health / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009519:New York City / Q000453:epidemiology; D011203:Poverty; D015995:Prevalence; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014504:Urban Health / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*