Association Between Sleep and Psychomotor Development in Early Childhood (SleePsy)

Universidade do Porto

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Sleep

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire Children Sleep habits; Other: Melatonin evaluation; Other: Schedule of Growing Skills II; Other: Actigraphy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06816225

SleePsy

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sleep is a neurophysiological active process essential for healthy physical and cognitive development. In Portugal, there is no recent and objective data on how children sleep.

Given the importance of sleep in child health and development as well as the health gains achieved by establishing healthy sleep patterns since childhood, it seems extremely relevant to assess the various sleep parameters of Portuguese children and correlate them with their psychomotor and anthropometric development indicators. The results of this research work may support the implementation of sleep health education measures among parents, educators and policy makers, thus contributing to support the implementation of practices that promote sleep quality, napping until later in life as well as to promote the health of future adults.

Enrollment: 119 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 4 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children aged 2 and 6 months year until the first assessment;
• Gestational age at birth 37 weeks or more;
• Delivery without serious complications for the child;
• Absence of developmental pathologies or pathologies that interfere with psychic and motor development;

Exclusion criteria

• Non-preterm birth but with severe growth restriction;
• Diagnosis of psychomotor development pathology;
• Diagnosis of pathology that interferes with psychomotor development;
• Taking daily medication, except vitamin supplements.

Trial design

119 participants in 1 patient group

Healthy children

Description:

Aged 2 to 4 years old

Treatment:

Other: Actigraphy

Other: Schedule of Growing Skills II

Other: Melatonin evaluation

Other: Questionnaire Children Sleep habits