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Parents of children with sleep problems are more likely to have sleep-related problems themselves, including more daytime sleepiness, according to a new study by researchers at the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center and Brown Medical School.
“While most parents can testify that having a child with sleeping problems affects their own sleep, few scientific studies have looked at the relationship between children’s and parents’ sleep,” says lead author Julie Boergers, PhD, with the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center and Brown Medical School, and co-director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic of Hasbro Children’s Hospital.
The authors studied 107 families seeking treatment for their children aged 2 to 12 at a pediatric sleep disorders clinic, and found a link between children’s and parents’ sleep problems.
For both parents, having a child with more than one sleep disorder was associated with greater parental daytime sleepiness. Children in the study had a broad range of sleep problems, including obstructive sleep apnea, sleep terrors, insomnia [Insomnia Treatment], and bedtime refusal.
The study appears in the March 2007 issue of the Journal of Family Psychology.
There is much difference between nightmares and night terrors and there is a difference in the way of handling by the parents or caretakers.
A nightmare is an unpleasant or scary dream. Many of them are unaware of nightmares and children experience more frequently than adults.
Children experience them from time to time. One out of four children experience nightmares more than once in a week. A child wakes up after a nightmare and is often distressed and you cannot comfort a child after nightmare.
Night terror is not a dream but is a partial awakening from sleep with unusual behaviors such as screaming, mumbling or kicking. The child may be sweating or breathing fast during a night terror. Night terrors occur within two hours of sleep after a child goes to sleep.
Night terrors are harmless and each event will end in deep sleep. A child will not wake up with night terror even though he or she may have their eyes open. They are not completely awake and cannot recognize or communicate with you.
Children may oppose going back to sleep after a nightmare because they are afraid. Nightmares always occur almost in the night during the light stages of REM sleep. Children usually remember a nightmare
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