TY - JOUR
T1 - Screen use before bedtime
T2 - Consequences for nighttime sleep in young children
AU - Staples, Angela D.
AU - Hoyniak, Caroline
AU - McQuillan, Maureen E.
AU - Molfese, Victoria
AU - Bates, John E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants MH099437 from the National Institute of Mental Health (J.E. Bates, PI; K. Deater-Deckard, co-PI) and HD073202 (J.E. Bates, PI; V. Molfese. co-PI) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. C. Hoyniak was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health training grant (T32 MH100019-06; J. Luby, PI).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - There is increasing interest in the relation between screen use and sleep problems in early childhood. In a sample of 30-month-old children, this study used observational measures of screen use during the hour or so leading up to bedtime, parent reports of screen use during the child's bedtime routine, and actigraphic measures of toddler sleep to complement parent-reported sleep problems. Whether screen use was observed during the pre-bedtime period or was reported by the parents as part of the nightly bedtime routine, greater screen use in either context was associated with more parent-reported sleep problems. Additionally, more frequent parent-reported screen use during the bedtime routine was also associated with actigraphic measures of later sleep, shorter sleep, and more night-to-night variability in duration and timing of sleep. These associations suggest the negative consequences of screen use for children's sleep extend both to aspects of sleep reported by parents (e.g., bedtime resistance, signaled awakenings) and to aspects measured by actigraphy (e.g., shorter and more variable sleep).
AB - There is increasing interest in the relation between screen use and sleep problems in early childhood. In a sample of 30-month-old children, this study used observational measures of screen use during the hour or so leading up to bedtime, parent reports of screen use during the child's bedtime routine, and actigraphic measures of toddler sleep to complement parent-reported sleep problems. Whether screen use was observed during the pre-bedtime period or was reported by the parents as part of the nightly bedtime routine, greater screen use in either context was associated with more parent-reported sleep problems. Additionally, more frequent parent-reported screen use during the bedtime routine was also associated with actigraphic measures of later sleep, shorter sleep, and more night-to-night variability in duration and timing of sleep. These associations suggest the negative consequences of screen use for children's sleep extend both to aspects of sleep reported by parents (e.g., bedtime resistance, signaled awakenings) and to aspects measured by actigraphy (e.g., shorter and more variable sleep).
KW - Actigraphy
KW - Bedtime routines
KW - Early childhood
KW - Screen use
KW - Sleep
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098518446&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101522
DO - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101522
M3 - Article
C2 - 33385752
AN - SCOPUS:85098518446
VL - 62
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
SN - 0163-6383
M1 - 101522
ER -