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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 30.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2016 May 24;242:218–225. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.05.017

Table 4.

School performance by sleep disordered breathing reported by parents and self in Chinese children

Parent-reported SDB (any)
Mean (SD)
Self-reported SDB (any)
Mean (SD)

No/rarely Sometimes Usually F p No/rarely Sometimes Usually F p
Chinese 3.77±0.98 3.68±1.03 3.56±1.04 6.36 0.002** 3.73±1.00 3.54±1.06 3.32±1.01 19.99 0.00***
Math 3.80±1.05 3.74±1.08 3.56±1.12 7.56 0.001** 3.76±1.06 3.54±1.06 3.32±1.01 17.51 0.00***
English 3.85±1.05 3.74±1.11 3.67±1.14 4.64 0.01* 3.79±1.08 3.58±1.09 3.36±1.09 22.26 0.00***

a. SDB (any): any of the SDB symptoms in samples with complete data of three SDB items; SD, standard deviation;

b. *P value of correlation is < 0.05. **P value of correlation is < 0.01. ***P value of correlation is < 0.001;

c. Academic grades were lower in children who usually or sometimes had self- or parent-report SDB symptoms;