School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Sleep Health. 2016 Dec;2(4):330-334. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2016.09.003. Epub 2016 Oct 10.
Sleep plays a critical role in the health and well-being of children. Individual and household factors, including parent's social connections, may impact children's sleep. Our study assessed the association between children's sleep disturbances and parent's social capital in a sample of Canadian households.
Cross-sectional, observational study.
Data came from 339 children and their parents who completed a telephone and follow-up survey in 2013 as part of the Canada Brain-to-Society study. Participants were parents (73.1% female) with children aged 6 to 12years residing in Montreal, Canada.
Parental social capital was assessed using a position generator, and children's sleep disturbances were measured with the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire. Other household demographic and socioeconomic characteristics were measured, including parental and child age and sex, foreign-born status, and income. Linear regression was used to examine the association between parental social capital and children's sleep disturbances while controlling for possible confounders.
Parental social capital was negatively associated with children's sleep disturbances (β=-0.02, SE=0.01, P<.05), when controlling for demographic factors (sex of parent, household income, foreign-born status, parent's age, sex and age of child, suggesting that children of parents with higher social capital had fewer sleep disturbances.
Parents with higher social capital tended to have children with few total sleep disturbances than did parents with lower social capital. Parental social capital may be a potentially modifiable aspect of the home environment that has implications for children's health.
睡眠对儿童的健康和幸福起着至关重要的作用。个人和家庭因素，包括父母的社会关系，可能会影响儿童的睡眠。我们的研究评估了加拿大家庭样本中儿童睡眠障碍与父母社会资本之间的关系。
横断面、观察性研究。
数据来自于 2013 年参加加拿大脑与社会研究的 339 名儿童及其父母，他们通过电话和后续调查完成了调查。参与者为父母（73.1%为女性），孩子年龄在 6 至 12 岁，居住在加拿大蒙特利尔。
父母的社会资本通过位置生成器进行评估，儿童的睡眠障碍通过儿童睡眠习惯问卷进行测量。还测量了其他家庭人口统计学和社会经济特征，包括父母和孩子的年龄和性别、是否为外国出生以及收入。线性回归用于检验父母社会资本与儿童睡眠障碍之间的关系，同时控制可能的混杂因素。
在控制人口统计学因素（父母性别、家庭收入、是否为外国出生、父母年龄、孩子性别和年龄）后，父母的社会资本与儿童睡眠障碍呈负相关（β=-0.02，SE=0.01，P<.05），这表明社会资本较高的父母的孩子睡眠障碍较少。
社会资本较高的父母的孩子总的睡眠障碍较少，而社会资本较低的父母的孩子则较多。父母的社会资本可能是家庭环境中一个潜在可改变的方面，对儿童的健康有影响。
