Associations between stress, sleep, and functioning have been well-established in the general adult population, but not as specific subpopulation of interest here-parents. To advance understanding how maternal sleep is linked with both mothers' experiences stress their parenting, this study used actigraphic mother-report measures observed mother reports multiple stressors relevance. In a community sample mothers toddlers (N = 314; child age M 2.60, SD 0.07 years), was indexed cumulative risk...

Background Sleep is thought to be important for behavioral and cognitive development. However, much of the prior research on sleep's role in behavioral/cognitive development has relied upon self‐report measures cross‐sectional designs. Methods The current study examined how early childhood sleep, measured actigraphically, was developmentally associated with child functioning at 54 months. Emphasis preschool, a crucial setting emergence psychopathology. Participants included 119 children...

The study objective was to examine the impact of a brief behavioral sleep intervention (The Sleep Train Program) on and behavior in children with externalizing problems. Children (3-8 years) presenting health clinic for problems were randomized receive or mealtime (active control). Families then completed parent management training followed by cross-over intervention. Outcomes included parent-reported child actigraphic sleep, examined full sample subsample comorbid difficulties. In both...

The present research studied children in the second year of life ( N = 29, M age 21.14 months, SD 2.64 months) using experimental manipulations within and between subjects to show that responsive parental influence helps have more frequent sustained object holds with fewer switches objects compared when parents are either not involved or over‐involved. Regardless involvement, were visually rich, based on size, centeredness, dominance held relative other objects. These findings important...

The present study considered multiple aspects of sleep in a community sample young children (at ages 30, 36, and 42 months) their mothers, using both diaries actigraphy. Through principal components analysis, 17 20 commonly used actigraphy variables were reduced to four main whose formed composites of: Activity, night-to-night Variability, Timing, Duration. Sleep latency daytime remained separate from the composites. same identified at each age, for mothers. Furthermore, derived showed...

Family processes during the pre-bedtime period likely have a crucial influence on toddler sleep, but relatively little previous research has focused family process in this context. The current study examined several aspects of period, including use bedtime routines, qualities child's home sleep environment, and promotion child emotional security, families 30-month-old toddlers (N= 546; 265 female) who were part multi-site longitudinal development. These characteristics quantified using...

Research shows that childhood dysregulation is associated with later psychiatric disorders. It does not yet resolve discrepancies in the operationalization of dysregulation. also far from settled on origins and implications individual differences This study tested several operational definitions using Achenbach attention, anxious/depressed, aggression subscales. Individual growth curves were computed, predictors considered. The compared predictive utility indexes to standard externalizing...

The current study used event-related potentials to examine a candidate process through which sleep difficulties affect attentional processing in toddlers. Fifteen toddlers participated an auditory Oddball task while neurophysiological data were collected. Sleep deficits assessed using actigraphs, and attention was examined with sustained task. A P3-like component elicited from the toddlers, longer target P3 latencies associated poorer irregular sleep. Findings suggest that is less efficient...

Objective/Background: Poorer executive function (EF) has been implicated in the etiology of negative parenting (e.g., harsh, reactive, intrusive). EF may be affected by good or poor quality sleep, and thus sleep involved parenting. In current exploratory study, we investigated additive interactive effects maternal indicators statistical prediction Patients/Methods: A sample 241 mothers 2.5-year-olds (51% girls) completed questionnaires, wore wrist actigraphs for one week, several tasks...

The physical home environment is thought to play a crucial role in facilitating healthy sleep young children. However, relatively little known about how various features of the are associated with early childhood, and some recommendations clinicians make for improving child environments based on limited research evidence. present study examined observer parent descriptions child's were sleep, measured using actigraphy parent's reports, across year childhood. used machine learning approach...

Inhibitory control has been widely studied in association with social and academic adjustment. However, prior studies have generally overlooked the potential heterotypic continuity of inhibitory how this could affect assessment understanding its development. In present study, we systematically considered four well-established measures control, testing two competing hypotheses: (a) manifestation coheres within across time consistent, relatively simple ways, consistent homotypic continuity....

Abstract Objective To examine screening strategies for identifying problematic sleep in a diverse sample of infants. Methods Parents infants (5–19 months; N = 3,271) presenting primary care visit responded to five items and the Infant Sleep Questionnaire (ISQ), validated measure infant sleep. If parents affirmatively any item, providers received prompt evaluate. For each questions, we examined differences item endorsement criterion related validity with ISQ. Using conceptual composites night...

Although insomnia symptoms and chronic pain are associated, less is known about the temporal nature of associations between these variables or impact internalizing on associations. Concurrent longitudinal were examined among symptoms, in youth with this retrospective analysis clinical records. We hypothesized following: (a) pain, would be significantly interrelated at all waves, (b) more strongly predict future than reverse, (c) mediate association pain.Youth (N = 132; age M 15.34 years, SD...

The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence positive mental health (MH) screens in a pediatric high-risk asthma (HRA) clinic population, and success rate engagement MH services before after adding clinical psychologist our multidisciplinary clinic.We hypothesized that HRA population would have higher anxiety/depression symptoms than previously reported for general population. We anticipated presence an embedded facilitate successful connection services.Pediatric patients...

There are well-known associations between stress, poor sleep, and cognitive deficits, but little is known about their interactive effects, which the present study explored in a sample of mothers toddlers. Since certain types decline start during 20s continue into later ages, we also whether mothers’ age interacted with stress sleep prediction functioning. We hypothesized that poorer [measured using one week 24-hour wrist actigraphy data] having more chronic stressors [e.g., life events,...

Introduction Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is associated with negative health outcomes, behavior problems, and poor academic performance when left untreated. Prior research has shown that children from racial ethnic minority backgrounds those living in lower socioeconomic status (SES) homes or neighborhoods have higher prevalence of OSA but likelihood receiving evidence-based care for OSA. Disparities pediatric detection (e.g., timely assessment diagnosis) likely contribute to this...

The present study examined individual differences in the development of sustained attention across toddlerhood, as well how these related to language and sleep. Toddlers (N = 314; 54% male) were assessed at 30, 36, 42 months using multiple measures attention, a standardized assessment, actigraphic 80% White. Family socioeconomic status (SES) was calculated Hollingshead Four Factor Index ranged from 13 66 (M 47.59, SD 14.13). Aims (a) examine associations between situations, informants, time;...