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SLEEP BEHAVIOUR STUDIED LONGITUDINALLY
Author(s) -
KLACKENBERG GUNNAR
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1982.tb09459.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sleep (system call) , habit , longitudinal study , demography , prospective cohort study , duration (music) , sample (material) , pediatrics , predictive power , gerontology , social psychology , psychology , surgery , art , literature , pathology , sociology , computer science , operating system , philosophy , chemistry , epistemology , chromatography
. Data on sleep behaviour have been extracted from a prospective longitudinal study of growth in a random sample of, originally, about 200 children, with annual examinations. The purpose was to assess to what extent data at 4 years on duration of sleep, night‐awakening and habitual sharing of the parents’bed can predict conditions in these respects at 8, 12 and 16 years. The predictive power is slight in general concerning the first two variables, while the habit of sharing the parents’bed is rather more difficult to shake off, above all when the child has reached school age (6–7 years in Sweder).