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The problem
Intervention: Observation of sleep patterns during successive quarters of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
Who it was tested with: 594 children aged 0-36 months (mean age 18.5 months, 52% female) and their parents, primarily in Midwestern USA.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"Each parent responded only once" and "The year was divided into quarters" with analysis using "multivariable linear regression" comparing outcomes across quarters. The study aimed to detect pandemic-related changes by comparing sleep metrics across successive time periods, but found no significant quarterly variation in most sleep measures.
Study design cannot establish causation or isolate pandemic effects from seasonal variation. Parent-reported measures lack objective verification. Sample limited to one US region. Cross-sectional design with single response per parent prevents tracking individual changes over time.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
