1-149 - Sleep in High-Risk Young Children: Disparities, Behavioral Correlates, and Intervention Results

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Sleep is a central regulatory process in development shaped by biological, social and environmental influences. Sleep health (duration, timing, and quality of sleep) underlies a wide range of child health outcomes, including cognitive functioning, emotion processing, stress regulation, and obesity, and is increasingly considered fundamental for promoting positive child development. Sleep is also modifiable, particularly during early childhood, and is therefore a cost-effective intervention target that may positively impact multiple child and family domains. Finally, emerging work indicates disparities in sleep in relation to social-environmental factors (e.g., SES, neighborhood characteristics). To harness the power of sleep to foster positive developmental and health outcomes in young children, it is essential to identify correlates of poor sleep across infancy and early childhood, particularly among children at risk for poor sleep, and to test intervention strategies to enhance sleep in young, diverse child populations.

This symposium includes data from four different research groups whose work synergizes to elucidate such links between sleep and child outcomes in high-risk populations across early childhood. The first presentation will report findings on sleep and body mass index in young children in relation to family immigration status. The second will present data on socio-demographic risk, sleep, and child stress physiology during infancy. The third will report on early-emerging links between sleep and obesity-related eating behaviors among low-income toddlers. The fourth will provide results from a large randomized controlled trial of a family-based intervention to optimize sleep across a 1-year period and discuss implications and considerations for sleep interventions.

Sub Unit

• Health, Growth, Injury

Chair

• Alison L. Miller, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Individual Presentations

• Objectively Measured Sleep Duration and Body-Mass Index in Young Children: Nativity and Ethnicity Differences - Presenting Author: Tiffany Phu, Department of Psychology, University of Denver; Non-Presenting Author: Neda Senehi, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus; Non-Presenting Author: Lisa Badanes, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Non-Presenting Author: Marina Mendoza, Denver Preschool Program; Non-Presenting Author: Sarah Enos Watamura, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

• Association of Infant Sleep with Chronic and Day-to-day Physiological Stress - Presenting Author: Charu Tara Tuladhar, Boston University; Non-Presenting Author: Jerrold S. Meyer, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Non-Presenting Author: Amanda Tarullo, Boston University

• Sleep Health and Obesity-Related Eating Behaviors in Low-Income Toddlers - Presenting Author: Alison L. Miller, University of Michigan School of Public Health; Non-Presenting Author: Sara E Miller, University of Michigan; Non-Presenting Author: Monique K. LeBourgeois, University of Colorado; Non-Presenting Author: Julie Sturza, University of Michigan; Non-Presenting Author: Katherine L Rosenblum, University of Michigan; Non-Presenting Author: Julie Lumeng, University of Michigan

• Early Childhood Sleep Interventions: Widening the Net - Presenting Author: Michelle Garrison, University of Washington; Non-Presenting Author: Georgia Goldberg, Seattle Children’s Research Institute; Non-Presenting Author: Teresa Ward, University of Washington; Non-Presenting Author: Dimitri A. Christakis, University of Washington