1074 A Preliminary Analysis of the Association Between Sleep Quality and Behavior Following a Child Sleep Intervention
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Abstract
Abstract Introduction It is well-established that sleep is essential for children’s physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development. Insufficient or poor-quality sleep has consistently been linked to behavioral difficulties in children. Interventions targeting parental sleep beliefs and practices may play a key role in improving both child sleep and related behavioral outcomes. This study aimed to examine whether improvements in children’s sleep quality following a short sleep intervention predict changes in behavioral outcomes. Methods A total of 74 parent-child dyads with children aged 3 to 5 participated in a two-hour group intervention on children’s sleep (2–4 families). While parents received the intervention, children engaged in sleep-related educational activities in another room. A short follow-up group session occurred two weeks later, attended only by the parents. Measures for this study were collected before the intervention (T1) and about two months later (T2). Parents completed various questionnaires, including the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). A hierarchical linear regression was conducted to determine whether changes in sleep quality (CSHQ scores) predicted children’s behavioral outcomes (SDQ scores) at T2. T1 behavioral difficulties and sleep quality were entered in the first block, while T2 sleep quality was added in the second block. The dependent variable was T2 behavioral difficulties. Results The first model was significant (F(2, 71) = 47.799, p <.001) and accounted for 57.4% of the variance. T1 behavioral difficulties predicted T2 behavioral difficulties (B =.682, p <.001), but T1 sleep quality was not a significant predictor (B =.133, p =.29). Adding T2 sleep quality explained an additional 3.1% of the variance (B =.355, p =.02). This change in R2 was significant (F(3, 70) = 35.644, p <.001), with the final model explaining 60.5% of the variance in T2 behavioral difficulties. Conclusion This study highlights the significant role of improving sleep quality in reducing behavioral difficulties in preschool-aged children. A short intervention targeting parental sleep beliefs and practices can effectively promote healthier sleep patterns and positive behavioral outcomes in young children. Support (if any) This project was funded by the SSHRC.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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