Bruni Oliviero, Brambilla Paolo
Dept of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University, Roma, Italy.
Family Pediatrician, Azienda Tutela della Salute (ATS), Città Metropolitana di Milano, Italy.
Ital J Pediatr. 2017 Jan 25;43(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s13052-017-0329-0.
A huge amount of literature in the last decades showed that sleep is essential for children's health and well-being and that short sleep duration is associated with several negative health outcomes. Many developmental phases in infancy and childhood are in strict relationship with an healthy sleep.In the last years some specific recommendations made for how much sleep children need have been published. The empirical evidences for contemporary sleep recommendations has changed and the new recommendations are clearly different from the previous ones and reflect clearly the changes in the sleep need of the children and adolescents in the last decades although seem still to be largely unfitting for preadolescence and adolescence.If sleep is to be treated as a therapeutic intervention, then consensus guidelines, statements, and evidence-based best-practice documents are needed to underpin sleep recommendations for children.Sleep recommendations for children play an important role for public policies and interventions, and to advertise parents and children of the negative consequences of sleep deprivation/reduction.
过去几十年的大量文献表明，睡眠对儿童的健康和幸福至关重要，而短睡眠时间与多种负面健康结果相关。婴儿期和儿童期的许多发育阶段与健康睡眠有着密切关系。近年来，已发布了一些关于儿童所需睡眠时间的具体建议。当代睡眠建议的实证依据已经改变，新建议明显不同于先前的建议，清楚地反映了过去几十年儿童和青少年睡眠需求的变化，尽管似乎仍然很大程度上不适用于青春期前和青春期。如果将睡眠视为一种治疗干预措施，那么就需要共识性指南、声明和基于证据的最佳实践文件来支持针对儿童的睡眠建议。儿童睡眠建议对公共政策和干预措施起着重要作用，并且向家长和儿童宣传睡眠剥夺/减少的负面后果。
