Sleep habits of the children in the Grau de Gandia. A descriptive study
Abstract
Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder in chilhood and it may occur to unweaned babies or during the infant period. In order to be able to detect as early as possible this disease, it is useful to make sleep questionnaires, such as the Spanish Version of the Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ).
We considered to know the prevalence of sleep disorders in a population from 3 to 6 years old from the “Grau de Gandia”, using de Spanish Version of PSQ by means of an autofilled survey answered by the parents of the students from the different schools.
We performed a cross sectional study, collecting 144 valid surveys, performing data entry in a EXCEL database for further description.
A 23.4% of the children have insomnia based on the responses and it is significant the presence of other parasomnias such as somniloquy (70%), snoring (7.2%), bruxism (22.3%), rhythmic movement disorders (7.1% ) and a 4.1% of the children have symptoms of attention deficit regardless of havingr or not symptoms of hyperactivity. A 2.08% of the survey responded to a combined ADHD and a 6.25% of the children had symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity.
Our study provides similar data to other population studies carried out at schools at this age range and also in higher, with regard to insomnia, parasomnias, sleep habits and ADHD, being the lack of education of the habit of sleep the most common etiology, so the role of the nurse is fundamental in the orientation and training for parents
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