Effect of sleep habits on academic performance in schoolchildren age 6 to 12 years: a cross-sectional observation study

Kumar, Chithambara Thanu Siva; Rajan, Mahalakshmi; Pasupathy, Umapathy; Chidambaram, Sathya; Baskar, Nithya

doi:10.5664/jcsm.9520

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“…The prevalence of sleep problems among school‐age children with overweight and obesity is high, with up to 84.6% of youth in our study having clinically significant CSHQ sleep disturbance scores. This rate is much higher than the already high 69.3‐71.9% reported in the general pediatric population of school‐age children when using the same cut‐off for the same screening tool (CSHQ) as ours (Siva Kumar et al, 2022; Wang et al, 2013). Although the CSHQ sleep disturbance score was not predictive of child behavioral outcomes, almost one‐third of our sample had restless sleep or snored loudly during sleep.…”

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Sleep and its variability in relation to behavioral outcomes in school‐age children with overweight and obesity

Tsai

Tung

Huang

et al. 2023

Research in Nursing & Health

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This was a cross‐sectional study to examine sleep and its variability in relation to behavioral outcomes in school‐age children with overweight and obesity. A total of 246 school‐age children with overweight or obesity were recruited between 2019 and 2021 from 10 public elementary schools in Northern Taiwan. Parents completed sleep and behavior questionnaires, with children wearing an actigraphy monitor for 7 days. Average daily sleep duration by actigraphy was 7.52 h, with 84.6% of the children having clinically significant sleep disturbance scores and 68.3% having a total behavior problem score in the clinical range. Children were categorized by median split for sleep duration and sleep duration variability. Multivariate regression analyses showed that children in the insufficient (duration)‐stable (variability) sleep category had significantly higher scores for emotion problems (B = 0.94, p = 0.01), self‐control problems (B = 1.61, p < 0.01), and total behavior problems (B = 3.38, p < 0.01) compared to children in the sufficient‐stable sleep (reference) category. Children in the insufficient‐variable sleep category had significantly higher self‐control problem scores compared to children in the reference category (B = 1.03, p < 0.05). Findings from our study suggest that school‐age children with overweight and obesity coexist with sleep and behavioral problems, and those who have consistently insufficient sleep are at the greatest risk for the worst behavioral outcomes. Screening for sleep habits and behavioral problems should be considered a standard practice in pediatric overweight and obesity.

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Sleep and its variability in relation to behavioral outcomes in school‐age children with overweight and obesity

Tsai

Tung

Huang

et al. 2023

Research in Nursing & Health

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“…Sleep disorders have negative effects on cognitive functions, school performance, and emotional and behavioural regulation and are associated with obesity, among other problems [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. On the other hand, the reduced practice of physical activity and sports, the screen behaviour and electronic media use (mobile devices, television, video games, and the internet) are factors that have been associated with sleep disorders in children [ 13 , 14 , 15 ].…”

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Primary School Children’s Sleep Habits: Association with Socioeconomic Factors and Physical Activity Habits

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Sleep disorders have significant health impacts and affect children’s performance and wellbeing. This study aims to characterise the sleep habits of Portuguese primary school children considering socioeconomic factors, daily lifestyle, presence of electronic devices in the bedrooms, and the practice of physical and sports activity (PSA) and to identify clinical factors that may be related to a child’s insufficient sleeping time. This study involved 1438 primary students. Sleep habits and problems were assessed using the short version of the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ). The mean sleep duration was 9 h 37 min/ per night (SD = 44 min). The prevalence of global sleep disturbances was 25.8%. The main factors we identified to be positively associated with a child’s sleep deficit (i.e., <10 h) were: being older than 7 years, living further away from school, having electronic devices in the bedroom, going to bed and eating dinner later, less daily time of PSA, and having higher scores on the sleep duration subscales. Sleeping and eating habits, electronic devices in the bedroom, and a low level of engagement with PSA are associated with children’s sleep disturbance and shorter sleep duration.

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“…This opens the opportunity to design and conduct further research on genetically informed early detection and prevention of sleep problems. This is particularly important as sleep problems can be persistent from childhood to adulthood, and early sleep intervention programs have been shown to also benefit school and behavioral outcomes (Siva Kumar, Rajan, Pasupathy, Chidambaram, & Baskar, 2021). Finally, as treating insomnia in adulthood results in improvement in depressive symptoms (Ho, Chan, Lo, & Leung, 2020; Leerssen et al., 2020), supporting optimal sleep early in childhood may also offer an opportunity to prevent affective disorders before they develop.…”

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Are some children genetically predisposed to poor sleep? A polygenic risk study in the general population

Kocevska,

Trajanoska,

Mulder

et al. 2023

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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BackgroundTwin studies show moderate heritability of sleep traits: 40% for insomnia symptoms and 46% for sleep duration. Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic variants involved in insomnia and sleep duration in adults, but it is unknown whether these variants affect sleep during early development. We assessed whether polygenic risk scores for insomnia (PRS‐I) and sleep duration (PRS‐SD) affect sleep throughout early childhood to adolescence.MethodsWe included 2,458 children of European ancestry (51% girls). Insomnia‐related items of the Child Behavior Checklist were reported by mothers at child's age 1.5, 3, and 6 years. At 10–15 years, the Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children and actigraphy were assessed in a subsample (N = 975). Standardized PRS‐I and PRS‐SD (higher scores indicate genetic susceptibility for insomnia and longer sleep duration, respectively) were computed at multiple p‐value thresholds based on largest GWAS to date.ResultsChildren with higher PRS‐I had more insomnia‐related sleep problems between 1.5 and 15 years (BPRS‐I < 0.001 = .09, 95% CI: 0.05; 0.14). PRS‐SD was not associated with mother‐reported sleep problems. A higher PRS‐SD was in turn associated with longer actigraphically estimated sleep duration (BPRS‐SD < 5e08 = .05, 95% CI: 0.001; 0.09) and more wake after sleep onset (BPRS‐SD < 0.005 = .25, 95% CI: 0.04; 0.47) at 10–15 years, but these associations did not survive multiple testing correction.ConclusionsChildren who are genetically predisposed to insomnia have more insomnia‐like sleep problems, whereas those who are genetically predisposed to longer sleep have longer sleep duration, but are also more awake during the night in adolescence. This indicates that polygenic risk for sleep traits, based on GWAS in adults, affects sleep already in children.

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Effect of sleep habits on academic performance in schoolchildren age 6 to 12 years: a cross-sectional observation study

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Sleep and its variability in relation to behavioral outcomes in school‐age children with overweight and obesity

Sleep and its variability in relation to behavioral outcomes in school‐age children with overweight and obesity

Primary School Children’s Sleep Habits: Association with Socioeconomic Factors and Physical Activity Habits

Are some children genetically predisposed to poor sleep? A polygenic risk study in the general population

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