Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Performance: A Meta-Analysis

Pilcher, June J.; Huffcutt, Allen I.

doi:10.1093/sleep/19.4.318

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“…Experimental studies of sleep deprivation (see review by Pilcher & Huffcutt, 1996) support the contention that decrements in mood can result from both sleep loss and sleep fragmentation. Further support for the argument that infant night waking can contribute to maternal depression through the mechanism of sleep deprivation comes from findings that interventions that reduce infant night waking also improve mothers' moods (Armstrong, Van Haeringen, Dadds, & Cash, 1998;Hiscock & Wake, 2001).…”

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“…Further, mothers are susceptible to depressive symptoms during the postpartum period. Because sleep deprivation is known to have deleterious effects on mood (Pilcher & Huffcutt, 1996), the sleep deprivation produced by infant night waking may contribute to postpartum depression (Ross, Murray, & Steiner, 2005). Alternately, because depressed mothers tend to provide less effective parenting than nondepressed mothers (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care Research Network [NICHD ECCRN], 1999), depressed mothers may engage in parenting practices that produce poorer sleep in their infants.…”

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Night waking in 6-month-old infants and maternal depressive symptoms

Karraker

Young

2007

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

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Relations between night waking in infants and depressive symptoms in their mothers at 6 months postpartum were examined using the data from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care. Although more depressive symptoms were only weakly correlated with a higher frequency of infant waking, longer wake times, and more total time awake, the rate of clinically significant depression scores was about double in mothers of chronically waking infants in comparison with mothers whose infants did not awaken during the night. The value of comparing subgroups to elucidate relations identified through correlations is discussed.

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Night waking in 6-month-old infants and maternal depressive symptoms

Karraker

Young

2007

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

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“…Much less is known about the association between sleep duration and psychiatric symptoms in children even though a vast amount of adult studies have clearly shown that sleep deprivation is related to psychiatric symptoms, and it affects mood more than cognitive functioning [23]. Sleep fragmentation causes similar behavioral symptoms to sleep deprivation [29].…”

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Sleep quality, duration and behavioral symptoms among 5–6-year-old children

Paavonen

Porkka‐Heiskanen

Lahikainen

2009

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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To cite this version:E. Juulia Paavonen, Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen, Anja Riitta Lahikainen. Sleep quality, duration and behavioral symptoms among 5-6-year-old children. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2009, 18 (12), pp.747-754. <10.1007/s00787-009-0033-8>. Abstract The objective of the present study was to examine whether parent-reported short sleep duration and sleeping difficulties are related to behavioral symptoms among pre-school aged children. The study is a crosssectional survey of 297 families with 5-6-year-old children. The Sleep Disturbance Scale for children was used to measure sleep duration and sleeping difficulties, and the Child Behavior Checklist and Teacher's Report Form were used to measure attention problems, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms. In multivariate logistic regression models, short sleep duration was according to parental reports related to inattention (adjusted odds ratio 4.70, 95% CI 1.58-14.00), internalizing (adjusted odds ratio 3.84, 95% CI 1.32-11.21), and total psychiatric symptoms (adjusted odds ratio 3.53, 95% CI 1.23-10.17) while according to teacher's reports it was almost significantly related to internalizing symptoms (adjusted odds ratio 4.20, 95% CI 0.86-20.51). Sleeping difficulties were strongly related to all subtypes of psychiatric symptoms according to parental reports (adjusted odds ratios ranging from 6.47 to 11.71) and to externalizing symptoms according to teachers' reports (adjusted odds ratio 7.35, 95% CI 1.69-32.08). Both short sleep duration and sleeping difficulties are associated with children's behavioral symptoms. Intervention studies are needed to study whether children's behavioral symptoms can be reduced by lengthening sleep duration or improving sleep quality.

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“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] This heightened attention has been driven by a growing body of literature on the deleterious effects of sleep deprivation on residents' wellbeing and performance. 2,3,[7][8][9][10] Studies have identified many domains affected by fatigue, including professionalism, learning, errors, and completion of complex cognitive tasks. [11][12][13] The increased incidence of postcall automobile accidents among interns and residents is well documented.…”

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