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. 2025 Aug 8;13:1533015. doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1533015

Table 2.

Descriptive characteristics of the study sample by sleep quality outcome.

Characteristic CBCL PSD4a PSRI4a
N = 1,123 p-valuea N = 374 p-valuea N = 142 p-valuea
Child age (years) 0.7 0.08 0.8
Mean (SD) 4.2 (0.4) 4.9 (0.8) 5.4 (1.0)
Median (IQR) 4.0 (4.0, 4.5) 4.7 (4.4, 5.1) 5.1 (4.9, 5.9)
Missing 0 0 0
Child sex, N (%) 0.7 0.6 0.4
Male 580 (52%) 185 (49%) 66 (46%)
Female 543 (48% 189 (51%) 76 (54%)
Child race/ethnicity, N (%) 0.7 0.8 0.3
Non-Hispanic White 385 (35%) 51 (14%) 23 (16%)
Non-Hispanic Black 91 (8.3%) <10 (<5%) <5 (<5%)
Non-Hispanic Asian 61 (5.5%) 44 (12%) <5 (<5%)
Non-Hispanic other 90 (8.2%) 36 (9.7%) 8 (5.6%)
Hispanic 476 (43%) 235 (63%) 110 (77%)
Missing 20 <5 0
Maternal age (years) 0.3 0.7 0.8
Mean (SD) 30.8 (5.5) 31.4 (4.9) 30.1 (5.1)
Median (IQR) 31.0 (27.0, 35.0) 32.0 (28.0, 35.0) 30.0 (27.0, 34.0)
Missing 0 0 0
Gestational age at birth (months) 0.7 0.9 >0.9
Mean (SD) 38.8 (1.7) 38.5 (2.0) 38.2 (2.1)
Median (IQR) 39.0 (38.0, 40.0) 39.0 (38.0, 40.0) 39.0 (38.0, 39.0)
Missing 0 0 0
Birth weight (grams) <0.001 0.009 0.02
Mean (SD) 3,313.3 (518.7) 3,293.9 (523.1) 3,227.2 (575.5)
Median (IQR) 3,340.0 (2,990.0, 3,651.2) 3,340.0 (2,977.8, 3,621.8) 3,232.0 (2,941.0, 3,607.2)
Missing 31 8 6
Maternal education, N (%) 0.5 0.4 0.4
Less than high school 88 (7.9%) <5 (<5%) <5 (<5%)
High school degree, GED/equivalent 178 (16%) 31 (8.3%) 11 (7.8%)
Some college, no degree, and above 848 (76%) 339 (91%) 129 (91%)
Missing 9 2 1
Annual household income, N (%) 0.14 0.2 0.4
<$30,000 219 (32%) 95 (29%) 65 (50%)
$30,000–$49,999 82 (12%) 56 (17%) 27 (21%)
$50,000–$74,999 84 (12%) 45 (14%) 16 (12%)
$75,000 or more 293 (43%) 136 (41%) 23 (18%)
Missing 445 42 221
Pre-pregnancy BMI category, N (%) 0.6 0.3 0.2
Underweight 27 (2.6%) 10 (2.7%) 6 (4.4%)
Normal weight 454 (44%) 148 (40%) 61 (45%)
Overweight 286 (28%) 96 (26%) 36 (26%)
Obese 267 (26%) 114 (31%) 34 (25%)
Missing 89 6 5
Sleep Quality 0.91 0.03 0.03
Mean (SD) 53.08 (5.36) 50.66 (9.07) 47.55 (8.87)
Median (IQR) 51 (50.0, 53.0) 49.64 (41.39, 57.14) 46.22 (39.95, 51.49)

BMI, body mass index; CBCL, child behavior checklist; GED, general educational development; IQR, interquartile range; PSD4a, PROMIS parent proxy short form-sleep disturbance 4a; PSRI4a, PROMIS parent proxy short form sleep-related impairment 4a; SD, standard deviation.

a

Welch's two-sample t-test and Pearson's chi-squared test for sex difference for continuous and categorical variables.