Cross-cultural differences in the sleep of preschool children

Highlights • Children in Asia have considerably later bedtimes and shorter nighttime sleep. • Many parents perceived that their preschooler had a sleep problem (15% in Korea and 44% in China). • Most children in Asian countries continue to nap, whereas most in Caucasian countries stop by the age of...

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Published inSleep medicine Vol. 14; no. 12; pp. 1283 - 1289
Main Authors Mindell, Jodi A, Sadeh, Avi, Kwon, Robert, Goh, Daniel Y.T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.12.2013
Subjects
Asian Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
Beds
Child
Child Rearing - ethnology
Child, Preschool
Cross-cultural
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Data Collection
European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
Family Characteristics - ethnology
Female
Humans
Male
Neurology
Preschool
Sleep
Sleep Medicine
Sleep patterns
Sleep problems
Sleep Wake Disorders - ethnology
Cross-cultural
Preschool
Sleep
Child
Sleep problems
Sleep patterns
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Summary:Highlights • Children in Asia have considerably later bedtimes and shorter nighttime sleep. • Many parents perceived that their preschooler had a sleep problem (15% in Korea and 44% in China). • Most children in Asian countries continue to nap, whereas most in Caucasian countries stop by the age of 5 years. • Bed sharing and room sharing are common in Asian countries. • There are significant cross-cultural temporal differences in sleep but not in total duration of sleep over 24 h in preschoolers.
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ISSN:1389-9457
1878-5506
DOI:10.1016/j.sleep.2013.09.002