TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting sleep health among families of young children in head start
T2 - Protocol for a social-ecologicalapproach
AU - Bonuck, Karen A.
AU - Blank, Arthur
AU - True-Felt, Barbara
AU - Chervin, Ronald
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant to Dr Bonuck from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1R01HD082129-01A1). The authors are grateful to Ann Raftery, MA, Director of Sleep Programs, Nancy Maxwell, Executive Director, and Louise Derry, MA, of Sweet Dreamzzz Inc for allowing us to integrate their Early Childhood Sleep Education Program into our protocol and for their review and feedback on this manuscript. The authors also acknowledge the input of Amanda Schwartz, PhD, Ariella Herman, PhD, and Carole Teutsch, MD.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Inadequate or poor quality sleep in early childhood impairs social-emotional and cognitive function via effects on the developing brain and increases obesity risk via hormonal and endocrine effects. The prevalence of short sleep duration, behavioral sleep problems, andsleep-disorderedbreathing among children aged 3 to 5 years is 20% to 50%. Healthy sleep habits increase sleep duration and prevent behavioral sleep problems. Awareness of sleepdisorderedbreathing symptoms leads to its timely treatment. We designed a study that aims to empower families whose children are in early childhood programs with the knowledge and skills needed to obtain healthy sleep and to recognize a sleep problem. We used the social-ecological framework to guide individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy interventions. This study builds on the Sweet Dreamzzz, Inc, Early Childhood Sleep Education Program (ECSEP) in Head Start. A steppedwedge-clusterrandomized trial will test effects on child, parent, and classroom outcomes; a policy evaluation will assess the impact of knowledge-translation strategies. The study has 3 aims. The first is to adapt educational materials into multimedia formats and build the capacity of Head Start agencies to implement the study. The second aim is to enroll 540 parent-child dyads in a primary prevention trial of sleep health promotion in Head Start and to analyze effects on children's sleep duration (primary outcome); parents' knowledge, attitudes,self-efficacy,and behavior; and children's sleep difficulties. The third aim is to conduct a secondary prevention feasibility study of screening and guidance for sleep problems. Secondary outcomes are changes in classroom behaviors and policies. Integrating sleep health literacy into early childhood programs could affect the life-course development of millions of children.
AB - Inadequate or poor quality sleep in early childhood impairs social-emotional and cognitive function via effects on the developing brain and increases obesity risk via hormonal and endocrine effects. The prevalence of short sleep duration, behavioral sleep problems, andsleep-disorderedbreathing among children aged 3 to 5 years is 20% to 50%. Healthy sleep habits increase sleep duration and prevent behavioral sleep problems. Awareness of sleepdisorderedbreathing symptoms leads to its timely treatment. We designed a study that aims to empower families whose children are in early childhood programs with the knowledge and skills needed to obtain healthy sleep and to recognize a sleep problem. We used the social-ecological framework to guide individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy interventions. This study builds on the Sweet Dreamzzz, Inc, Early Childhood Sleep Education Program (ECSEP) in Head Start. A steppedwedge-clusterrandomized trial will test effects on child, parent, and classroom outcomes; a policy evaluation will assess the impact of knowledge-translation strategies. The study has 3 aims. The first is to adapt educational materials into multimedia formats and build the capacity of Head Start agencies to implement the study. The second aim is to enroll 540 parent-child dyads in a primary prevention trial of sleep health promotion in Head Start and to analyze effects on children's sleep duration (primary outcome); parents' knowledge, attitudes,self-efficacy,and behavior; and children's sleep difficulties. The third aim is to conduct a secondary prevention feasibility study of screening and guidance for sleep problems. Secondary outcomes are changes in classroom behaviors and policies. Integrating sleep health literacy into early childhood programs could affect the life-course development of millions of children.
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U2 - 10.5888/pcd13.160144
DO - 10.5888/pcd13.160144
M3 - Article
C2 - 27584877
AN - SCOPUS:84994134087
SN - 1545-1151
VL - 13
JO - Preventing Chronic Disease
JF - Preventing Chronic Disease
IS - 9
M1 - 160144
ER -