TY - JOUR T1 - Disturbed sleep: effects of sociocultural factors and illness JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 20 LP - 25 DO - 10.1136/adc.78.1.20 VL - 78 IS - 1 AU - Roberto J Rona AU - Leah Li AU - Martin C Gulliford AU - Susan Chinn Y1 - 1998/01/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/78/1/20.abstract N2 - To assess the prevalence of sleep disturbance and associated risk factors, sleep patterns were analysed in 14 372 English and Scottish children. Approximately 4% of children aged 5 experienced disturbed sleep more than once a week, but this decreased to 1% from age 9. Less than 25% of the parents with an affected child consulted a doctor. Sleep disturbance was associated with persistent wheezing compared to non-wheezing children (odds ratio 4.42; 95% confidence interval (CI) 3.17 to 6.13), and more frequent in children of Indian subcontinent descent than in white children (odds ratio 2.20; 95% CI 1.34 to 3.60), and in children whose mother reached no more than primary education compared with those with higher education (odds ratio 2.41; 95% CI 1.51 to 3.84). Sociocultural factors associated with ethnicity and respiratory illness are important risk factors for sleeping disorders in childhood. ER -