Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom.
Prev Chronic Dis. 2023 May 11;20:E38. doi: 10.5888/pcd20.220395.
Sleep is a critical component of child health and the prevention of chronic disease. Children may benefit from school-based sleep promotion; however, parents need to be involved for healthy sleep strategies learned at school to be translated to the home. The objective of this study was to explore parental perspectives on sleep behaviors and responsiveness to school-based sleep promotion.
Twenty-five parents of school-aged children were purposively sampled for interviews from July 2019 through April 2020 in Alberta, Canada. Descriptive qualitative methodology was used, and data were generated through semistructured interviews and researcher field notes. Interviews were transcribed and themes were identified by using latent content analysis.
Three themes emerged from analysis: 1) sleep is valued and supported, 2) barriers to healthy sleep exist, and 3) schools are allies in promoting sleep. Parents perceived that sleep was essential for their child's health, facilitated healthy sleep practices in the home, and highlighted barriers (busy schedules and poor parental role models) that affected sleep. Parents supported and expressed value in school-based sleep promotion and noted factors that affected the success of school-based sleep promotion.
Parents are responsive to school-based sleep promotion. Promotion efforts should include resources that engage and involve parents in the school community. Throughout the development of resources to support school-based sleep promotion, additional consideration of parent-reported barriers to promoting healthy sleep in the home should be included.
睡眠是儿童健康和预防慢性病的重要组成部分。学校的睡眠促进活动可能对儿童有益；然而，要使学校里学到的健康睡眠策略在家庭中得到应用，就必须让家长参与进来。本研究的目的是探讨家长对睡眠行为的看法以及对基于学校的睡眠促进活动的反应。
2019 年 7 月至 2020 年 4 月，在加拿大艾伯塔省，我们从学龄儿童的家长中通过目的抽样选择了 25 名家长进行访谈。采用描述性定性方法，通过半结构化访谈和研究人员的现场记录来生成数据。访谈记录被转录，并通过潜在内容分析来确定主题。
分析产生了三个主题：1）重视和支持睡眠，2）存在健康睡眠障碍，3）学校是促进睡眠的盟友。家长们认为睡眠对孩子的健康至关重要，在家中促进了健康的睡眠习惯，并强调了影响睡眠的障碍因素（繁忙的日程安排和不良的父母榜样）。家长们支持并重视基于学校的睡眠促进活动，并指出了影响基于学校的睡眠促进活动成功的因素。
家长对基于学校的睡眠促进活动有反应。推广工作应包括吸引和让家长参与学校社区的资源。在制定支持基于学校的睡眠促进的资源的过程中，应进一步考虑家长报告的在家中促进健康睡眠的障碍因素。
