Clinical and Historical Predictors of Sleep Disturbances in School-Age Children

S disturbances in preschool children tend to persist, as the child grow older and the mothers perceived their child's sleep problems as stressful to them and their family life. In 84% of SD infants these problems persisted after 3 years of age (1) and were still present in 75% of 8 years-old children having presented SD at 3 years (2). Pollock (3) reported a significant increased risk of sleep problems at 10 years if the child had the problem at age 5. Further, sleep problems in older children were often associated with sleep-waking disorders in the 1st year of life (4) and, conversely, children who had early disorders of the sleep-waking rhythm often had multiple sleep problems later (5). In a study on predictive value of behaviors at 3 years, Abe et al. (6) found that sleep disturbances were of the most persistent group. These Clinical and Historical Predictors of Sleep Disturbances in School-Age Children