HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Parent sleep advice can raise children shut-eye

Geneva Pittman
NEW YORK | 9. September 2011 4: 08 pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - screening children to the sleep problems and sleep strategies discuss with parents could teenagers at school with better night-time rules, routines help, suggests new research from Australia.
Researchers found that if they had sleep-related consultations have with parents, children, the tend to be less sleep problems and to get better bedtime as children whose parents do not advise habits.
The study was small and not to demonstrate that the sleep improvements to changes in academic achievements of children this year.
Still, the results show that "sleep disorders in school children are treatable using... a short behavioral intervention", said study author Jon QUACH, at the University of Melbourne, Reuters Health in an e-Mail.
"Consult parents should sleep for your child if they are concerned," he added.
In five and six-year-old, that related behavior, most sleeping children on researchers say.
"Some of them have poor sleeping habits, where become too late to bed, they have a good-night routine nor many of them have even parents for them to stay, when they go to sleep at night", said Pediatric sleep specialist Jodi Mindell, St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, which was not involved in the study.
"In this age group some night, fear" said they, and fear may increase as the children start school.
The current study on this back-to-school timeframe, including children, who were led in their first year of primary school. This is an important window for the treatment of insomnia, Quach said, since children, who sleep well might not more trouble, the transition to the school, that school performance and poorer relations puts it later for worse.
Quach and his colleagues studied about 1,500 parents of children from 22 different elementary schools in Melbourne. These parents 161 said her child had a moderate or severe sleep and 108 were recruited for the study. Children with serious breathing problems sleep-related, for example were excluded.
Half of the participating parents had followed a private consultation in College, by a telephone call of two weeks later behaviour to discuss sleep strategies based on their child problems. The other half were not additional help offered.
Next year, the researchers investigated parents over their children shut-eye again. Six months after the first consultation, they all gave children learn an assessment.
Sleep problems tend to dissolve in both groups, reported researchers in Pediatrics. Yet children, whose parents had sleep-related advice in General, better.
After six months or 26 percent of children in the consultation group and in the no-Consulting Group 47% of moderate or hard sleep disorders. By a year but there was no difference, and about one-third of children in both groups had insomnia.
Children in the consultation group less resistance before going to sleep and less time had to go to bed, parents reportedly. But there was no difference in how well she determined on scientific tests to measure, reading, mathematics and spelling skills have.
Quach and colleagues found that the study was small and a follow up with more children among other things, the students for more than a year tracking needs be-. It may be that improvements translate sleep better in academic abilities would take, she said.
Mindell said: "There is no question" that this type of program with school Advisor or nurses the sleep consultation in the U.S. schools could work. "I think this is a wake up call for teachers and school psychologists, they need to always on the lookout for sleep disorders," said Reuters Health.
For now she had to have some important tips for parents of young children, who sleep problems.
The "really simple changes," she said, are: "for your child to bed goes, before nine - we know that this is the turning point;" including reading as part of the bedtime routine-it helps calm children down, there is a focus on them, it helps with writing, it's all good; "then children encourage to fall asleep on their own."
Finally, make sure that there are no unwanted electronics in the nursery, she said. "The game boys will be go on, the computer Los, mobile phones become los."
Source: bit.ly/pXdFNv Pediatrics, online 2. September 2011.

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