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Television-viewing Habits and Sleep Disturbance in School Children by Judith Owens; Rolanda Maxim; Melissa McGuinn; Chantelle Nobile; Michael Msall; Anthony Alario is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objective. To investigate the relationship between specific television-viewing habits and both sleep habits and sleep disturbances in school children. ## Methods. The parents of 495 children in grades kindergarten through fourth grade in three public elementary schools completed two retrospective survey questionnaires, one assessing their children's sleep behaviors and the other examining television-viewing habits of both the child and the family. Sleep domains assessed included bedtime resistance, sleep onset delay, sleep duration, anxiety around sleep, parasomnias, night wakings, and daytime sleepiness. Teachers from all three schools also completed daytime sleepiness questionnaires (N = 402) for the sample. ## Results. Most of the television-viewing practices examined in this study were associated with at least one type of sleep disturbance. Despite overall close monitoring of television-viewing habits, one quarter of the parents reported the presence of a television set in the child's bedroom. The television-viewing habits associated most significantly with sleep disturbance were increased daily television viewing amounts and increased television viewing at bedtime, especial
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- Author
- Judith Owens; Rolanda Maxim; Melissa McGuinn; Chantelle Nobile; Michael Msall; Anthony Alario
- Publisher
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)