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“Determining the Effect of sleep hygiene education through a mobile application to mothers on children's sleep habits”
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Fateme Jabbari   , Zahra Kashaninia , Shima Haghani |
| MSc in Pediatric Nursing Education, Assistant Professor of Nursing School of Nursing and Midwifery, Nursing Care Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , kashaninia.za@iums.ac.ir |
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Introduction: Sleep plays an important role in children's health. This study aimed to determine the effect of school-based sleep hygiene education through a mobile application to mothers on children's sleep habits.
Method: In this quasi-experimental, single-group, pre-test-post-test study, 70 children (35 girls, 35 boys) aged 10 to 12 years in Dehgolan city (Kurdistan-Iran) with their mothers formed the research samples using a multi-stage random sampling method. Mothers' education was conducted through a phone application. In the present study, a demographic data form and the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) were used.
Results: The mean score of sleep habits decreased from 55.73 ± 6.63 before the test to 54.47 ± 6.58 after the test (p<0.001). The effect size of the intervention was the largest in the domain of delayed sleep onset (0.74) and the smallest in respiratory disorders (0.03). However, the intervention resulted in significant improvements in the domains of daytime sleepiness (p=0.006), sleep resistance (p<0.001), and delayed sleep onset (p<0.001); sleep problems increased in the domain of night awakenings (p<0.001).
Conclusion: Digital sleep hygiene education to mothers improved children's sleep habits with a medium effect size (0.53). Integrating such interventions into the school education system is recommended. However, the lack of a control group and the increase in sleep problems in the domain of night awakenings require future studies with a mixed design (digital and face-to-face) throughout the school year. |
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| Keywords: Sleep Hygiene, Children, Education, Mothers, Mobile Applications |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2025/05/11 | Accepted: 2025/06/29 | Published: 2025/08/1
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