Table 2.
Frequency of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children by Sex from Parent- and Self-Report
| Boys (%) | Girls (%) | Statistics | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N‡ | No/rarely | Sometimes | Usually | N‡ | No/rarely | Sometimes | Usually | X2 | |
| Parent report | |||||||||
| Loud snoring | 1363 | 75.3 | 16.7 | 8.1 | 1362 | 84.3 | 9.7 | 6.0 | 36.07** |
| Stopped breathing | 1268 | 87.8 | 5.8 | 6.4 | 1300 | 91.8 | 3.3 | 4.9 | 12.59* |
| Snorting/gasping | 1307 | 79.3 | 13.4 | 7.3 | 1317 | 84.1 | 9.6 | 6.4 | 10.90* |
| Any | 1203 | 68.5 | 21.9 | 9.6 | 1242 | 79.1 | 12.6 | 8.2 | 41.03** |
| Self report | |||||||||
| Loud snoring | 1737 | 86.1 | 8.5 | 5.4 | 1615 | 94.3 | 4.5 | 1.2 | 70.20** |
| Stopped breathing | 1702 | 92.3 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 1600 | 95.8 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 19.13** |
| Snorting/gasping | 1714 | 90.6 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 1627 | 91.3 | 6.0 | 2.7 | 5.82 |
| Any | 1660 | 80.1 | 12.7 | 7.2 | 1529 | 88.9 | 7.3 | 3.8 | 46.43** |
‡
Number of students differed across sample characteristics due to missing values.
Any: any of the SDB symptoms in samples with complete data of three SDB items, a proxy to the general SDB status.
*
P value of correlation is < 0.05.
**
P value of correlation is < 0.01.
***P value of correlation is < 0.001.