Sleeping Patterns
--Sleep is essential for the child’s physical and cognitive development.
--Lower SES is associated with subjective sleep/wake problems and daytime sleepiness, and exposure to disruptive sleep conditions and greater pre-sleep worries, environmental conditions served as an intervening variable linking.
--Poorer sleep may result from crowding working schedules, overcrowded households, chronic stressors, diet and alcohol consumption, and poorer temperature control in the sleep environment.
--Children who were given inconsistent sleeping schedules napped more during the week.
--Children from lower SES homes may be expected to share rooms with multiple individuals.
--Children from low SES families have been found to have poor sleep, characterized by shorter duration, poor quality, greater variability and greater incidence of clinical sleep disorders.
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