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Delivering sleep: Bed kit distributions to children living in poverty in Tanzania.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Sleep without borders starts here: Principles and pathways for sleep health promotion.Sleep medicine: X · 2026Article
- Promoting pediatric sleep health in low-resource settings: A specialist's perspective.Sleep medicine: X · 2026Article
- Sleeping without borders: Gaps in contextualizing sleep duration guidelines for adults in low-income countries.Sleep medicine: X · 2026Article
- Good nights sleep program: design and preliminary findings from a randomized clinical trial to improve child and parent sleep in low-income families.Frontiers in sleep · 2026Article
- It takes a village, not questionnaires, to improve children's sleep health: A commentary on community-driven sleep health.Sleep medicine: X · 2025Article
- Establishing a nurturing micro-sleep environment may positively influence children's overall development.Sleep medicine: X · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Overcrowded housing, insufficient beds, and poor mosquito protection are major barriers to healthy sleep for children living in poverty in developing countries. This study aimed to address these barriers by providing children living in poverty in Tanzania with climate-appropriate items essential for creating a safe and comfortable micro-sleep environment. Methods: From 2000 to 2024, Sleeping Children Around the World (SCAW) delivered 135,500 bed kits to children aged 7-11 years living in poverty in Tanzania. Since 2019, culturally adapted sleep education information was delivered orally to parents of bed kit recipients. Results: Twenty-four distributions reached an average of 5646 children per cohort years. Mattresses and mosquito nets were consistently included; other items varied. Conclusions: This study demonstrates a community-driven approach to improving the sleep environments of children living in poverty in a developing country, offering a scalable model for promoting sleep health in low-resource settings.
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