Better sleep, better life? How sleep quality influences children's life satisfaction.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess the association between children's sleep quality and life satisfaction; and to evaluate the underlying mechanisms of this relationship.

Methods

Three pediatric cohorts in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Environmental influences on Child Health (ECHO) Research Program administered Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS^®) parent-proxy measures to caregivers (n = 1111) who reported on their 5- to 9-year-old children's (n = 1251) sleep quality, psychological stress, general health, and life satisfaction; extant sociodemographic data were harmonized across cohorts. Bootstrapped path modeling of individual patient data meta-analysis was used to determine whether and to what extent stress and general health mediate the r

SUBMITTER: Blackwell CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7442661 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature