| Summary: | 碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 幼兒保育系碩士班 === 100 === The purpose of this study was to investigate what factors would influence young children’s sleep quality and sleep quality would cause different situations of mental and physical development. This study was to sample parents who live in Taichung to recall young children’s sleep conditions of the week and filled out the questionnaires which were carried out in the form of quasi-experimental design. The questionnaires were distributed 524 to young children’s parents from the public and private kindergartens, and the number of the returned questionnaires was 424. This study was applied to analyzed descriptive statistics, independence sample t-test, Chis-quare test and one way ANOVA etc.
To generalize conclusions from analyzing information as follows:
1. The bedtime behaviors of young children generally include using the bathroom, brushing their teeth, washing their faces, and turning off the lights. Most young children sleep in the same bed as their parents. Chatting, playing with toys, or watching television before bed all directly contribute to an increase in interference toward the child''s sleep; even a small night light in the room can increase the level of interference. The index of sleep quality shows that most young children fall asleep between 9:31 and 10:00 at night and wake up between 6:31 and 7:00 the following morning. On average, most young children sleep between 8 to 10 hours each night, spending 6 to 15 minutes falling asleep and then lying in bed awake each morning for 5 minutes or less before getting up. An interruption in these patterns is usually due to discomfort, fear, or nightmares.
2. The gender of the child has no bearing on the quality of sleep.
3. Over the period of a week, bedtime behaviors and the quality of sleep vary according to a few specific factors. Turning the lights off before the child goes to sleep can increase the rate of uninterrupted sleep and induce the child to get up earlier in the morning. Children who share a room or bed with the parents tend to go to sleep later and get less sleep than those who sleep separately. In addition, pacifying items have no bearing on the quality of sleep.
4. The more young children chat and play with toys before bed, the later they will go to sleep. Watching television and eating snacks before bed increases the time it takes required for a child to fall asleep. Intense exercise or playing with toys while getting ready for bed increases the amount of time a child spends lying awake in bed before getting up the next morning. Playing with toys or chatting before bed decreases the likelihood of uninterrupted sleep. Watching television in the bedroom, while falling asleep, increases the amount of time a child spends lying awake in bed before getting up the next morning.
5. The differences were young children’s mental and physical development which were influenced by sleep quality. The main reason was that sufficient sleep would benefit height, weight and BMI, and it would also advantage mental condition and learning abilities in the early morning. The length of sleep duration was longer that heights would be taller and weights would be heavier. Falling asleep in the bed at once would advance appetites, stable moods and learning abilities. On the contrary, the sleep interruption was getting worse so that attentions were getting less.
Eventually, according to this study can refer to young children’s parents, educators and research.
Keywords: Bedtime behavior, Interference factor, Sleep quality
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