Home Sleeping Conditions and Sleep Quality in Low-Income Preschool Children

Abstract

Parents with children enrolled in Head Start Programs (a federally funded preschool program for low-income children) in the areas of Lansing and Detroit, Michigan, provided data for two previous reports and also the current analyses. 8,10 Questionnaires were sent home in advance of a parent meeting. The surveys were completed, before or during the meeting, for the youngest child in the family who was currently attending Head Start. Foster children for whom the legal signer of consent would be the state were excluded. The questionnaires were sent to 294 families in Detroit and 374 in greater Lansing. In total, 152 families including 87 from Detroit (30%) and 65 from greater Lansing (17%) consented to participate and completed the surveys. For the current analyses, thirty-two families were excluded because of incomplete responses to questionnaires, and data from the remaining 120 families (59 from Detroit and 61 from Lansing), were included for the analysis. This study was approved by the University of Michigan Institutional Review Board, and written informed consent was obtained from the parents.