ArticleFrontiers in sleep2025
Early childhood sleep quality in a pediatric cohort: sex-specific differences.
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- Sleep, Emotion, and Sex-Specific Developmental Trajectories in Childhood and Adolescence.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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Abstract
Background: Poor sleep health in childhood has significant implications for life-long physical, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes, but sleep problems and potential developmentally-driven sex differences in early childhood are poorly understood. Objective: To objectively assess sleep health and investigate sex-specific differences in sleep in early childhood. Methods: Three hundred thirty-six children enrolled in the PRogramming of Intergenerational Stress Mechanisms (PRISM) pregnancy cohort in Boston and New York City underwent actigraphy for 7 days. A subset ( Results: Children were median (IQR) age of 6.9 (4.9, 8.9) years, half were male, and most were Black (46.2%) and/or Hispanic (33.9%). On actigraphy, average sleep duration and sleep efficiency were low compared to published normative data, with median (IQR) time spent asleep of 7.8 (7.4, 8.3) hours and sleep efficiency of 79.1% (74.7, 82.6). Wake duration after sleep onset (WASO) assessed by actigraphy was elevated (median (IQR) of 1.8 (1.4, 2.2) hours), and significantly worse among boys compared to girls ( Conclusion: Clinically significant and objectively assessed sleep disturbance was common in this pediatric cohort, and worse in boys compared to girls. These findings emphasize early sex-based sleep disparities warranting intervention to intercept lifelong consequences of poor sleep in early childhood.
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