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  • Title: Outcomes at six years of age for children with infant sleep problems: longitudinal community-based study.
    Author: Price AM, Wake M, Ukoumunne OC, Hiscock H.
    Journal: Sleep Med; 2012 Sep; 13(8):991-8. PubMed ID: 22748447.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVES: To examine whether infant sleep problems predict (1) sleep problems and (2) poorer outcomes at the age of six years. METHODS: We studied a community-based cohort of 326 six-year-olds recruited to a randomized trial of a behavioral sleep intervention for sleep problems at age seven months. Predictors were parent-reported child sleep problems at ages 4, 12, and 24 months ("yes" vs. "no"). There were a number of parent reported six-year-old outcomes: (1) Child sleep problem ("moderate/large" vs. "none/small") and Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ); (2) child and maternal mental and global health, child health-related quality of life (HRQoL, also child-reported), and child-parent relationship. The analyses were composed of multivariable models, adjusting for potential confounders and six-year sleep problems, examining whether each outcome was predicted by each infant sleep problem entered simultaneously. In a second set of analyses the predictor was the count of the number of waves with a sleep problem. RESULTS: A total of 225 (69%) families participated at six years. The CSHQ Total increased 0.5 points (95% CI: 0.4 to 2.4, p=0.006) with each additional infant sleep problem, but there was little evidence that sleep problems at one or more time points during early childhood predicted other child, maternal, or child-parent outcomes at six years. CONCLUSION: Infant sleep problems, whether transient, recurring, or persistent, do not predict long-term outcomes. Clinicians should focus on reducing child sleep problems and their considerable short-to-medium term impacts as they arise during childhood.
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