Napping in English preschool children and the association with parents’ attitudes

Abstract

. (2013) 'Napping in English preschool children and the association with parents' attitudes.', Sleep medicine., 14 (4). pp. 352-358. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. sleep.2012.12.010 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Sleep medicine. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version was subsequently published in Sleep medicine, 14, 4, 2013Sleep medicine, 14, 4, , 10.1016Sleep medicine, 14, 4, /j.sleep.2012 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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“…The sedentary nature of television watching may therefore encourage napping even if it is not needed. Indeed, Jones and Ball (2013) found that a majority of three-year-olds in their sample engaged in opportunistic napping, such as falling asleep in the living room while watching television. The exact role that media plays in napping should be explored in future research.…”

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“…A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 34 Zaregarizi et al 97 reported an acute reduction in blood pressure (systolic and diastolic blood pressure) and heart rate. The authors also reported that this reduced blood pressure and heart rate could not be attributed solely to the supine position, because the measurements taken during the nap were significantly lower than the levels observed when the subjects were lying supine in relaxed wakefulness.…”

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