Tomás Vila M, Miralles Torres A, Beseler Soto B, Revert Gomar M, Sala Langa M J, Uribelarrea Sierra A I
Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Francesc de Borja, Po. de Les Germanies 71, Gandia, Spain.
An Pediatr (Barc). 2008 Mar;68(3):250-6. doi: 10.1157/13116705.
Knowledge of sleep patterns and sleep disturbances among healthy children is interesting, particularly, amongst other things, for carrying out comparative studies with children with certain diseases. The objective of the present study was to study sleep patterns and the prevalence of sleep disturbances among schoolchildren.
We used the Spanish version of the Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire, which was given out to a representative sample of Gandia Town.
The prevalence of sleep disturbances were as follows: insomnia 10.5 %, daytime sleepiness 13 %, a positive score for sleep-disorder breathing 5.7 %, snoring 5.7 %, enuresis 5.3 %, sleepwalking 12.5 %, night terrors 18.4 %, nightmares 12.8 %. As regards sleep patterns, the average time for getting up was 7:45 am, the average time for going to bed was 22:13 pm, and the average sleep duration was 9 hours and 30 minutes.
Comparison among different populations studies is difficult due to the use of different instruments to measure the same variables. Our results are similar to other studies, with the exception of sleep-disorder breathing and snoring, where the prevalences are lower in our study. The sleep patterns also did not show any differences between other published studies.
了解健康儿童的睡眠模式和睡眠障碍很有意义，尤其是在与患有某些疾病的儿童进行比较研究等方面。本研究的目的是研究学童的睡眠模式和睡眠障碍的患病率。
我们使用了西班牙语版的儿童睡眠问卷，该问卷发放给了甘迪亚镇的一个代表性样本。
睡眠障碍的患病率如下：失眠10.5%，日间嗜睡13%，睡眠呼吸障碍阳性评分5.7%，打鼾5.7%，遗尿5.3%，梦游12.5%，夜惊18.4%，噩梦12.8%。关于睡眠模式，起床的平均时间是上午7:45，上床睡觉的平均时间是晚上22:13，平均睡眠时间是9小时30分钟。
由于使用不同的工具来测量相同的变量，不同人群研究之间的比较很困难。我们的结果与其他研究相似，但睡眠呼吸障碍和打鼾除外，在我们的研究中其患病率较低。睡眠模式与其他已发表的研究之间也没有显示出任何差异。
