scholarly journals Midday napping in children: associations between nap frequency and duration across cognitive, positive psychological well-being, behavioral, and metabolic health outcomes

SLEEP ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianghong Liu ◽  
Rui Feng ◽  
Xiaopeng Ji ◽  
Naixue Cui ◽  
Adrian Raine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Internalizing Behavior ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Time In Bed ◽  
Metabolic Outcomes ◽  
Wide Range

AbstractStudy ObjectivesPoor sleep and daytime sleepiness in children and adolescents have short- and long-term consequences on various aspects of health. Midday napping may be a useful strategy to reduce such negative impacts. The effect of habitual napping on a wide spectrum of cognitive, behavioral, psychological, and metabolic outcomes has not been systematically investigated.MethodsThis study characterized midday napping habits in 3819 elementary school children from the China Jintan Cohort Study. In 2011, weekly nap frequency and average duration were collected once from students at grades 4–6. Prior to their completion of elementary school at grade 6 (in 2011–2013 respective to each grade), the following outcomes were collected once: behavioral and academic achievement evaluated by teachers, and self-reported positive psychology measures including grit, self-control, and happiness. IQ tests were conducted on a subgroup. Metabolic indices, including body mass index and fasting glucose concentration, were measured through physical exams. For the whole sample, we assessed associations between napping and each outcome, adjusted for sex, grade, school location, parental education, and time in bed at night. We also conducted stratified analyses on grade 6 (cross-sectional), grade 4 (2-year gap), and grade 5 (1-year gap) data.ResultsOverall, napping was significantly associated with higher happiness, grit, and self-control, reduced internalizing behavior problem, higher verbal IQs, and better academic achievement, although specific patterns varied across frequency and duration for different outcomes. More limited significant associations were found for decreased externalizing behavior problems, compared to non-nappers, while no significant associations were found for performance IQ and metabolic outcomes.ConclusionsResults indicate benefits of regular napping across a wide range of adolescent outcomes, including better cognition, better psychological wellness, and reduced emotional/behavioral problems. The current study underscores the need for further large-scale intervention studies to establish causal effects.

scholarly journals Cohort profile: the DANish LIFE course (DANLIFE) cohort, a prospective register-based cohort of all children born in Denmark since 1980

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. e027217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Bengtsson ◽  
Nadya Dich ◽  
Andreas Rieckmann ◽  
Naja Hulvej Rod
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Full Data ◽  
Childhood Adversities ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽  
Health And Well Being

PurposeThe DANish LIFE course (DANLIFE) cohort is a prospective register-based study set up to investigate the complex life course mechanisms linking childhood adversities to health and well-being in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood including cumulative and synergistic actions and potentially sensitive periods in relation to health outcomes.ParticipantsAll children born in Denmark in 1980 or thereafter have successively been included in the cohort totalling more than 2.2 million children. To date, the study population has been followed annually in the nationwide Danish registers for an average of 16.8 years with full data coverage in the entire follow-up period. The information is currently updated until 2015.Findings to dateDANLIFE provides information on a wide range of family-related childhood adversities (eg, parental separation, death of a parent or sibling, economic disadvantage) with important psychosocial implications for health and well-being in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. Measurement of covariates indicating demographic (eg, age, sex), social (eg, parental education) and health-related factors (eg, birth weight) has also been included from the nationwide registers. In this cohort profile, we provide an overview of the childhood adversities and covariates included in DANLIFE. We also demonstrate that there is a clear social gradient in the exposure to childhood adversities confirming clustering of adverse experiences within individuals.Future plansDANLIFE provides a valuable platform for research into early life adversity and opens unique possibilities for testing new research ideas on how childhood adversities affect health across the life course.

scholarly journals A workshop report on the causes and consequences of sleep health disparities

SLEEP ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra L Jackson ◽  
Jenelle R Walker ◽  
Marishka K Brown ◽  
Rina Das ◽  
Nancy L Jones
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Sleep Health ◽  
Blood Institute ◽  
Causal Pathways ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Sleep deficiencies, which include insufficient or long sleep duration, poor sleep quality, and irregular timing of sleep, are disproportionately distributed among populations that experience health disparities in the United States. Sleep deficiencies are associated with a wide range of suboptimal health outcomes, high-risk health behaviors, and poorer overall functioning and well-being. This report focuses on sleep health disparities (SHDs), which is a term defined as differences in one or more dimensions of sleep health on a consistent basis that adversely affect designated disadvantaged populations. SHDs appear to share many of the same determinants and causal pathways observed for health outcomes with well-known disparities. There also appears to be common behavioral and biological mechanisms that connect sleep with poorer health outcomes, suggesting a link between SHDs and other health disparities observed within these designated populations. In 2018, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research convened a workshop with experts in sleep, circadian rhythms, and health disparities to identify research gaps, challenges, and opportunities to better understand and advance research to address SHDs. The major strategy to address SHDs is to promote integration between health disparity causal pathways and sleep and circadian-related mechanisms in research approaches and study designs. Additional strategies include developing a comprehensive, integrative conceptual model, building transdisciplinary training and research infrastructure, and designing as well as testing multilevel, multifactorial interventions to address SHDs.

scholarly journals DOES SLEEP QUALITY SERVE AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN WELL-BEING AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT?

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Yulia Ayriza ◽  
Farida Agus Setiawati ◽  
Siti Rohmah Nurhayati ◽  
Sasanty Ratna Gumelar ◽  
Eka Putri Desy Rahmawati Sholeha
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Freshmen Students ◽  
High School To College ◽  
Multiple Regression Technique ◽  
Transition From High School ◽  
Academic Year

The transition from high school to college "forces" freshmen students to lead a brand new life until they eventually manage to adapt to the new environment and all its activities. Freshmen students who failed to adapt themselves to the environment will face various problems including the degradation of well-being which consequently affects their academic achievement and gets worse when it affects their sleep quality. This expost facto research design aims to examine whether sleep quality serves as a mediator between well-being and academic achievement. The participants comprise 231 freshmen students of a public university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia for the academic year 2017. They were collected using multilevel randomization conducted on seven existing University faculties. The data were collected using Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), Life Satisfaction, and Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and were analyzed using multiple regression technique. The results of the analysis demonstrated that sleep quality does not significantly mediate the relationship between well-being and academic achievement of freshmen students. However, this research found that the negative affect which constitutes a component of well-being significantly results in poor sleep quality. Therefore, it is highly recommended to improve well-being through prevention on the development of negative affect on students.

scholarly journals HOW PARENTS EDUCATION IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Otang Kurniaman ◽  
Annisa Indarni ◽  
Eddy Noviana
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Student Achievement ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Maternal Education ◽  
School Level ◽  
Student Academic Achievement ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Correlation Test

The Education in elementary school is a very important factor. Because the elementary school level is the foundation for the development of children's thinking and learning abilities influences and influences to the next level. The purpose of this research is to determine the academic achievement of students who are influenced by the parent’s education level. This research used a quantitative approach with a correlation test. The research conducted at Elementary school of 105 Tampan Pekanbaru to all of grade V students, with 150 total students. The Researcher used the Krejcie and Morgan tables sampling with 108 students. Based on the results of the correlation test shows that the magnitude of the father's education correlation coefficient on student academic achievement is 0.012 while the correlation of maternal education to student academic achievement is 0.081. Both are below the value of the r product moment correlation coefficient table for a sample of 108 with a significance level of 5% that is equal to 0.187. Thus the hypothesis H0 is accepted, it means that there is no meaningful relationship between parental education and student achievement.

Relation of Scores on the Open Middle Test to Self-Control and Academic Achievement of Inner-City Fourth-Grade Children

1987 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Melissa A. Elkind ◽  
Jonathan C. Cohen ◽  
David S. Glenwick ◽  
Jan L. Roth
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Social Problem Solving ◽  
Parochial Schools ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Reading Scores ◽  
Wide Range Achievement Test ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mean Differences

The construct validity of the Open Middle Test, a measure of children's social problem-solving ability, was investigated by assessing its relationship to self-control (Self-control Rating Scale) and academic achievement (Wide-Range Achievement Test). Subjects were 113 minority fourth graders from two urban parochial schools. A significant correlation was obtained between Open Middle Test effectiveness scores of first responses and WRAT Reading scores. No other correlations were significant. However, mean differences were significant for Open Middle Test effectiveness ratings of first responses and chosen responses, suggesting possible deficits in the evaluation of self-generated problem solutions. Implications of the results for training programs and for the use of the Open Middle Test as an outcome measure are discussed.

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