ReviewWorld journal of pediatrics : WJP2024
Childhood sleep: assessments, risk factors, and potential mechanisms.
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- Digital media exposure and pediatric health: the recommendations from the Italian Society of Pediatrics Digital Dependency Commission.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2026Guideline
- Adherence to 24-h Movement Guidelines in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Sleep Duration and Sun Exposure in Portuguese Children: Associations With Obesity Indicators.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2026Article
- Evaluation of environmental-genetic factors and mental health outcomes for sleep disturbance from late childhood to early adolescence.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Associations of smartphone, computer, and television use with insufficient sleep duration and overweight/obesity among lithuanian adolescents: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Loneliness mediates the association between sleep deficiency and fighting in school-aged adolescents: a 2-year longitudinal study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association Between Smartphone Attachment and Mental Health in Adolescents.Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc · 2025Article
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- Effects of Active Gamification on Sleep and Anxiety Reduction in Spanish Primary School Children.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Associations and Related Mechanisms of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Allergic Rhinitis in Children.Psychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology · 2025Review
- Genetically Supported Causality Between Micronutrients and Sleep Behaviors: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Environmental phenol mixture during pregnancy and child sleep quality in the ECHO cohort.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundSleep problem is a highly prevalent health issue among pediatric populations across the world. In this review, we aimed to identify risk factors contributing to sleep deficiency and poor sleep hygiene in children. Potential biological, psychosocial, and environmental mechanisms as well as research gaps in the literature are also discussed. DATA SOURCES: A comprehensive search for relevant English language full-text, peer-reviewed publications was performed focusing on pediatric sleep studies from prenatal to childhood and adolescence in a variety of indexes in PubMed, SCOPUS, and Psych Info. Both relevant data based and systematic reviews are included.
resultsThis paper summarizes many risk factors for childhood sleep problems, including biological (e.g., genetics, gender, age and puberty, prenatal factors, postnatal factors); nutritional (e.g., macronutrients, micronutrients, omega-3 fatty acids, obesity); environmental (e.g., heavy metals, noise, light, air pollution); interpersonal (e.g., family, exposure to violence, screen media use, physical injury); and community/socioeconomic variables (e.g., racial/ethnicity and cultural factors, neighborhood conditions and socioeconomic status, school factors, public health disasters/emergencies), to better understand the development of sleep problems in children.
conclusionsPoor childhood sleep is a multifactorial issue affected by a wide range of prenatal and early-life biological, environmental, and psychosocial risk factors and contributors. A better understanding of these risk factors and their mechanisms is an important first step to develop future research and prevention programs focusing on pediatric sleep problems.
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