The effect of teaching sleep behaviors to mothers on the sleep habits of young children kindergartens in Hamadan

Failure to observe proper sleep habits causes short-term changes in biological indices, hormonal activity, followed by overweight or obesity and diabetes in children. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of teaching sleep behaviors to mothers on sleep habits of young children kindergartens city of hamadan in 1396.

In this interventional study, 84 mothers of young children (in each group) were selected through cluster random sampling method of hamadan children's kindergartens. The data collection tool was a demographic and assessment of sleep habits of children of CSHQ questionnaire. In the experimental group, two sessions were delivered in the form of lectures, questions and answers and group discussions within a week, by three day interval about 50 minutes in groups of 10 to 15 people was held.The data were analyzed using spss software version 16, paired t-test and independent T-test.

There wasn't a significant difference between the mean scores in all areas and in the overall sleep problems of the experimental and control groups before intervention(p<0.05). There was a significant difference between the mean scores of all domains and the problems of sleep in the children of the experimental and control groups after intervention (p <0.05).There was a significant difference between the mean scores of in all domains and the total sleep problems of children in the experimental group before and after the intervention (p <0.05).

Education of proper sleep habits to mothers can improve the quality of sleep in young children.