Table 8.
Association between sleep duration and quality of life/well-being in children aged 0–4 years
| No of studies | Design | Quality Assessment | No of participants | Absolute effect | Quality | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Other | |||||
| Children were 3 years of age and followed until first-year junior high school (approximately 13 years old). Data were collected longitudinally (approximately a 10-year follow-up period). Sleep duration was assessed by parent report. Quality of life was assessed using the Dartmouth Primary Care Cooperative Project (COOP) charts. | |||||||||
| 1 | Longitudinal studya | Serious risk of biasb | No serious inconsistency | No serious indirectness | No serious imprecision | None | 9674 | Short sleep duration at 3 years of age (< 10 h vs. > 11 h) was not associated with quality of life at age ~13 years (OR = 1.15, 95% CI 0.99–1.33, p = 0.06) [82]. | VERY LOW |
Due to the fact that only one study was published on sleep duration and quality of life/well-being, a meta-analysis was not possible
aIncludes 1 longitudinal study [82]
bSleep duration was parent-reported with no psychometric properties reported. Therefore, the quality of evidence was downgraded from “low” to “very low”