Prolonged rooming-in in infancy is associated with generalized anxiety disorder in the adolescent period

Abstract

Sleeping in the same room with children for a long time may result in anxiety disorders in later period due to possible difficulties in bonding and/or less self-confidence.

Mother-child bed-sharing trajectories and psychiatric disorders at the age of 6 years

“…Other studies exploring the effect of bed-sharing on the child behavior and mental health were found at the literature (Madansky and Edelbrock, 1990, Okami et al, 2002, Barajas et al, 2011, Kaymaz et al, 2014). In a randomly selected community sample of 2 year-old children (n =199) and followed-up within 2 weeks of the 3rd anniversary, the majority of parents reported that their child had slept in their bed with them at least once during the previous two months (11% reported that the child always co-slept) (Madansky and Edelbrock, 1990).…”

“…In a small case-control study planned to investigate whether anxiety disorders in adolescents have a link with the separation time of bed/bedroom sharing with parents, Kaimaz et al (Kaymaz et al, 2014) recruited 51 adolescents who were diagnosed as generalized anxiety disorder with no-comorbidity and 71 healthy adolescents as the control group, who were chosen randomly. Mean duration of bed-sharing in the case group was longer than that of the control group.…”

“…Sample size(Madansky and Edelbrock, 1990, Okami et al, 2002, Kaymaz et al, 2014), lack of adjustment for confounders (Madansky and Edelbrock, 1990). and distinct operational definition of bed-sharing (Madansky and Edelbrock, 1990, Okami et al, 2002, Kaymaz et al, 2014) may have accounted at least in part for the difference between our results and the findings from the other studies.…”

“…Studies reporting other harms or benefits of bed-sharing, like the risk of hospitalizations (Ngale et al, 2013), cognitive and behavioral problems (Barajas et al, 2011, Okami et al, 2002, Madansky and Edelbrock, 1990), psychiatric symptoms (Kaymaz et al, 2014), and psychosexual development (Jain et al, 2011) in offspring are scarce at the literature. This study aimed to describe bed-sharing trajectories from 3 months to 6 years of age and to investigate the association between bed-sharing trajectories and mental health at the age of 6 years among children from a population-based birth cohort.…”

Embedding co‐sleeping practice within the family systems paradigm: Novel theoretical conceptualization and initial empirical exploration

“…The adopted conceptualizations insofar, viewed cosleeping as a sleeping arrangement where the child slept either with both parents or with the mother (e.g., Kaymaz et al, 2014;Keller & Goldberg, 2004;Santos et al, 2017;Teti & Crosby, 2012), apparently adhering to the attachment tradition (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978;Bowlby, 1982;Cassidy & Shaver, 2010). However, as Ross, Hinshaw, and Murdock (2016) pointed out, attachment theory "may be overlooking the role of a second parent in psychological well-being" (p. 400), thereby a co-sleeping conceptualization from an attachment standpoint is limited in its dyadic focus and neglectful of triadic-level interrelationships.…”