ArticleThe Journal of genetic psychology
Bedsharing in Early Childhood: Frequency, Partner Characteristics, and Relations to Sleep.
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- Bedsharing sleep characteristics in children with mild sleep-disordered breathing.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Trial
- Prevalence and Determinants of Bed-Sharing Among Infants and Toddlers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Article
- Association of Sleep-related Parenting Practices and Sleep Problems in Preschoolers: A National Multiprovince Survey in China.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Article
- Pediatric sleep electrophysiology: Using polysomnography in developmental cognitive neuroscience.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- Disparities in maternal knowledge and practices on sleep training: a cross-sectional analysis of urban vs. rural areas.Frontiers in sleep · 2025Article
- Sleep insufficiency and bedtime irregularity in children with ADHD: A population-based analysis.Sleep medicine · 2024Article
- Associations of preschool reactive bed-sharing with sociodemographic factors, sleep disturbance, and psychopathology.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Contributions of memory and brain development to the bioregulation of naps and nap transitions in early childhood.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
Bedsharing (sharing a bed with others during sleep) in early childhood (3-5 years old) is common across Western and non-Western societies alike. Though prior work indicates that bedsharing may relate to impairments in child sleep quantity or quality, the majority of studies conducted in young children are limited to parent-child bedsharing and rely almost exclusively on caregiver reports to measure child sleep. Here, the authors endeavored to gain further insights into the diversity of bedsharing practices among children in the United States, including how different bedsharing partners (caregivers, siblings) might impact actigraphy-derived measures of children's sleep. Using a sample of 631 children ages 2:9 to 5:11 years, we found that over 36% of children bedshared in some form overnight, with approximately 22% bedsharing habitually. In a subset of children for whom actigraphy measures were collected (
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