Factors affecting nightmares in children: parents' vs. children's ratings.
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
; 18(1): 20-5, 2009 Jan.
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| ID: mdl-18545870
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
The present study investigated the relationship between daytime symptomatology and nightmare frequency in school-aged children by eliciting daytime symptoms and nightmare frequency from children directly in addition to questionnaires completed by their parents.METHODS:
A sample of 4,834 parents and 4,531 of their children (age range 8-11 years) completed each a sleep questionnaire and the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ).RESULTS:
The results of the study clearly indicate that there is an underestimation of nightmare frequency in the parents' ratings compared to the children's data (effect size d = 0.30) and the closeness between influencing factors and nightmare frequency is considerably higher for the data based on the children's responses; the proportion of explained variance was twice as high.CONCLUSIONS:
Therefore, it seems important for research and clinical practice to not to rely on parents' information but to ask the children about the occurrence of nightmares.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Padres
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Trastornos del Sueño-Vigilia
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Sueños
Límite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
Asunto de la revista:
PEDIATRIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
Año:
2009
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Alemania