Utility of Subjective Sleep Assessment Tools for Healthy Preschool Children: A Comparative Study Between Sleep Logs, Questionnaires, and Actigraphy
Utility of Subjective Sleep Assessment Tools for Healthy Preschool Children: A Comparative Study Between Sleep Logs, Questionnaires, and Actigraphy
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DOI：
10.2188/jea.je20090054
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发表时间：
2010-03-01
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4.7
通讯作者：
Matsuishi, Toyojiro
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作者：
Iwasaki, Mizue;Iwata, Sachiko;Matsuishi, Toyojiro
背景：睡眠模式是影响儿童心理、行为和身体状况的重要因素。为了评估儿童的睡眠模式，除了客观的睡眠评估方法外，主观工具如睡眠日志和问卷调查仍被广泛使用。尽管主观和客观睡眠变量之间的相关性已经建立，但主观评估的特征尚未阐明。方法：调查父母睡眠评估的特征（每日睡眠日志和简短问卷），对48名健康的5岁儿童进行了为期7天的活动记录睡眠研究。父母报告中的睡眠时间表变量通常与睡眠模式的活动记录评估相关，但是，父母报告中的睡眠时间长于活动记录。虽然每日睡眠日志与腕动记录仪的相关性更好，但简短的问卷调查显示，与工作日腕动记录仪评估的睡眠模式有良好的相关性。父母的报告记录少于10%的夜间觉醒记录的actigraph.Conclusions：主观睡眠评估仍然是有用的，虽然他们的效用取决于目的和规模的研究问题。然而，了解这种评估的潜在偏差和特点对于正确解释数据至关重要。
Background: Sleep pattern is an important factor in a child's mental, behavioural and physical status. To evaluate the sleep patterns of children, subjective tools such as sleep logs and questionnaires are still widely used in addition to objective methods of sleep assessment. Despite the established correlation between subjective and objective sleep variables, the characteristic features of subjective assessment have not been elucidated.Methods: To investigate the characteristics of parental sleep assessment (daily sleep log and brief questionnaire) in preschool children, a 7-day actigraphic Sleep Study was conducted in 48 healthy 5-year-old children.Results: Sleep schedule variables in the parental reports generally correlated well with actigraphic assessment of sleep patterns; however, sleep periods were longer in parental reports than in actigraphic recordings. Although the daily sleep log was better correlated with actigraphy, the brief questionnaire showed a good correlation with sleep pattern on weekday actigraphic assessments. Parental reports recorded fewer than 10% of the night wakings recorded by actigraphy.Conclusions: Subjective sleep assessments remain useful, although their utility depends on the purpose and size of the study in question. However, knowledge of the potential biases and characteristics of such assessments is essential for correct interpretation of the data.