Association Between Sleep and Psychomotor Development in Early Childhood

ConditionSleep

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot listed

Trial typeObservational

Biological sexAll

Age2-4

SponsorUniversidade do Porto

About this trial

Sleep is a neurophysiological active process essential for healthy physical and cognitive development. In Portugal, there is no recent and objective data on how children sleep.

Given the importance of sleep in child health and development as well as the health gains achieved by establishing healthy sleep patterns since childhood, it seems extremely relevant to assess the various sleep parameters of Portuguese children and correlate them with their psychomotor and anthropometric development indicators. The results of this research work may support the implementation of sleep health education measures among parents, educators and policy makers, thus contributing to support the implementation of practices that promote sleep quality, napping until later in life as well as to promote the health of future adults.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Children aged 2 and 6 months year until the first assessment;

Gestational age at birth 37 weeks or more;

Delivery without serious complications for the child;

Absence of developmental pathologies or pathologies that interfere with psychic and motor development;

Disqualifiers

Non-preterm birth but with severe growth restriction;

Diagnosis of psychomotor development pathology;

Diagnosis of pathology that interferes with psychomotor development;

Taking daily medication, except vitamin supplements.

Trial population

The study population will be healthy children aged 2 to 4 years old. Considering that the most prevalent differences in Growing Skills II scale scores will be around 3 and 5 points for a healthy toddler population as ours and that we will need to divide the population into 3 groups of sleep patterns (seriously sleep-restricted, moderately sleep-restricted and normal sleepers),

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Prospective

Treatments tested in this trial

Actigraphy
Other intervention
Actigraphy is a validated complementary means of diagnosis, the gold standard for the assessment of circadian rhythm.
Schedule of Growing Skills II
Other intervention
Assessment scale for skills in child development from 0 to 6 years.
Questionnaire Children Sleep habits
Other intervention
Questionnaire for assessing sleep habits, validated for the Portuguese population (4) which allows us to understand the sleep hygiene habits of the child
Melatonin evaluation
Other intervention
Melatonin will be measured in the first-morning urine and it is considered to be a good marker of plasma MLT level since its concentration is highly correlated with nocturnal plasma melatonin.

Treatment groups

119 Participants

are divided into 1 treatment group

Group A: Healthy children4 interventions

Trial outcomes