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Record W4413363867 · doi:10.1016/j.sleh.2025.07.006

Maternal-reported shorter total sleep duration but not consecutive sleep duration in infancy is associated with future sleep problems in preschoolers

2025· article· en· W4413363867 on OpenAlex
Bryan Butler, Christine Laganière, Malka Hershon, AP vandenBerg, Hélène Gaudreau, Marie‐Hélène Pennestri

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Bibliographic record

VenueSleep Health · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicSleep and related disorders
Canadian institutionsHôpital Rivière-des-Prairies
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaFonds de Recherche du Québec-Société et CultureCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsSleep (system call)Duration (music)AudiologyMedicinePsychologyPediatricsDevelopmental psychology

Abstract

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OBJECTIVES: Poor sleep during childhood can affect multiple domains of functioning. However, the association between early infant sleep patterns and future sleep problems is not well-understood. This study aimed to assess whether maternal-reported total sleep duration (over 24 hours) and consecutive sleep duration in infancy are associated with later maternal reports of sleep problems in preschoolers. METHODS: This longitudinal study included a community sample of 294 mother-child dyads. Total sleep duration and consecutive sleep duration were measured by maternal reports using the Questionnaire about Sleep Habits at 6 months. Sleep problems were assessed by maternal reports using the Sleep Problems subscale of the Child Behaviour Checklist/1.5-5 at 48 and 60 months. RESULTS: Generalized Estimating Equations models revealed that maternal-reported infant shorter total sleep duration, but not consecutive sleep duration, was associated with more sleep problems in preschoolers (higher total Child Behaviour Checklist Sleep Problems subscale scores), adjusting for socioeconomic status, maternal depression, breastfeeding status, sleeping arrangements, time, and biological sex. More specifically, infant shorter total sleep duration was associated with more bedtime resistance, difficulty falling asleep, the presence of nightmares, and shorter sleep duration. CONCLUSIONS: Shorter maternal-reported total sleep duration but not consecutive sleep duration at 6 months was a marker of future parental reports of sleep problems in preschoolers. The results suggest that total sleep duration over 24 hours and sufficient opportunity to sleep should be prioritized over striving for an infant to sleep through the night during early infancy.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.056
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.272 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it