Chien Chi-Wen, Cheung Pauline, Chen Chao-Ying
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Front Neurosci. 2019 Aug 14;13:860. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00860. eCollection 2019.
Sleep duration has important implications for children's participation in daily activities; however, past attempts to examine this relationship has been limited to specific types of physical or educational activities. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between sleep duration and participation in various daily activities among school-aged children. A school-based sample of 391 children aged 5-12 years (boys: 52.4%) participated in this cross-sectional survey. Sleep duration was quantified using parental reports of their children's bedtime and wake-up time on weekdays and weekends. The parent-reported Participation and Environment Measure for Children and Youth was used to measure their children's participation frequency and involvement in 25 home, school, and community activities. The results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that, when the demographic variables were controlled for, weekday sleep duration was positively related to homework involvement and negatively related to the frequency of TV viewing; however, it was unrelated to participation in school and community activities. Conversely, weekend sleep duration was positively related to overall participation in school activities, and participation frequency and involvement in some home and community activities. Furthermore, sleep duration was approximately an hour shorter on weekdays than on weekends. These results suggest that weekend sleep duration has stronger positive implications for children's participation in daily activities than does weekday sleep duration. Interventions aiming to promote children's activity participation may either prolong children's weekend sleep duration or address their shorter weekday sleep duration.
睡眠时间对儿童参与日常活动具有重要影响；然而，过去对这种关系的研究仅限于特定类型的体育或教育活动。本研究旨在调查学龄儿童的睡眠时间与参与各种日常活动之间的关系。一个基于学校的样本，包括391名5至12岁的儿童（男孩占52.4%）参与了这项横断面调查。睡眠时间通过家长报告孩子在工作日和周末的就寝时间和起床时间来量化。使用家长报告的儿童和青少年参与及环境测量工具来测量他们孩子参与25项家庭、学校和社区活动的频率和参与程度。分层回归分析结果表明，在控制了人口统计学变量后，工作日睡眠时间与家庭作业参与度呈正相关，与看电视频率呈负相关；然而，它与参与学校和社区活动无关。相反，周末睡眠时间与学校活动的总体参与度、参与频率以及在一些家庭和社区活动中的参与程度呈正相关。此外，工作日的睡眠时间比周末大约短一个小时。这些结果表明，与工作日睡眠时间相比，周末睡眠时间对儿童参与日常活动具有更强的积极影响。旨在促进儿童活动参与的干预措施可以延长儿童的周末睡眠时间，或者解决他们工作日睡眠时间较短的问题。
