Frequency of consultation with doctor for children with a sleep problem
| Sleep problems | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disturbed sleep | Poor sleep | |||||||
| ⩾1 a week | <1 a week | |||||||
| No | n (%) | No | n (%) | No | n (%) | |||
| Wheeze | ||||||||
| Persistent wheeze | 43 | 19 (44.2) | 85 | 29 (34.1) | 34 | 10 (29.1) | ||
| Occasional | 21 | 7 (33.3) | 113 | 13 (11.5) | 27 | 7 (25.9) | ||
| No wheeze | 146 | 23 (15.8) | 578 | 53 (9.2) | 141 | 29 (20.6) | ||
| Ethnic group | ||||||||
| Scottish (whites) | 34 | 10 (29.4) | 181 | 18 (9.9) | 35 | 11 (31.4) | ||
| English (whites) | 69 | 17 (24.6) | 365 | 39 (10.7) | 73 | 18 (24.7) | ||
| English (inner city whites) | 28 | 8 (28.6) | 101 | 16 (15.8) | 42 | 11 (26.2) | ||
| Afro-Caribbean | 14 | 4 (28.6) | 47 | 7 (14.9) | 11 | 3 (27.3) | ||
| Indian subcontinent | 52 | 10 (19.2) | 68 | 13 (19.1) | 39 | 3 (7.7) | ||
| Others | 20 | 3 (15.0) | 25 | 3 (12.0) | 7 | 1 (14.3) | ||
| Mother’s education | ||||||||
| College or university | 37 | 6 (16.2) | 203 | 17 (8.4) | 40 | 10 (25.0) | ||
| Secondary education | 104 | 28 (26.9) | 477 | 57 (12.0) | 110 | 30 (27.3) | ||
| Primary education or no education | 56 | 13 (23.2) | 57 | 11 (19.3) | 39 | 4 (10.3) | ||
| Not known | 20 | 5 (25.0) | 50 | 11 (22.0) | 18 | 3 (16.7) | ||
| Father’s social class | ||||||||
| Non-manual | 24 | 3 (12.5) | 179 | 12 (6.7) | 36 | 5 (13.9) | ||
| Skilled manual | 54 | 13 (24.1) | 216 | 21 (9.7) | 61 | 11 (18.0) | ||
| Semi and unskilled manual | 41 | 12 (29.3) | 125 | 17 (13.6) | 24 | 5 (20.8) | ||
| Not known | 98 | 24 (24.5) | 267 | 46 (17.3) | 86 | 26 (30.2) | ||
| Nocturnal enuresis | ||||||||
| At least once a week | 31 | 13 (41.9) | 73 | 14 (19.2) | 10 | 3 (30.0) | ||
| Less than once a week | 11 | 4 (36.4) | 49 | 6 (12.2) | 9 | 1 (11.1) | ||
| Less than once a month | 14 | 2 (14.3) | 87 | 10 (11.5) | 18 | 6 (33.3) | ||
| No enuresis | 157 | 33 (21.0) | 567 | 63 (11.1) | 167 | 36 (21.6) | ||
| Maternal smoking at home (cigarettes per day) | ||||||||
| No smoking | 132 | 27 (20.5) | 517 | 56 (10.8) | 142 | 25 (17.6) | ||
| 1–9 | 27 | 6 (22.2) | 84 | 10 (11.9) | 17 | 8 (47.1) | ||
| 10–19 | 25 | 7 (28.0) | 100 | 14 (14.0) | 22 | 4 (18.2) | ||
| ⩾20 | 21 | 9 (42.9) | 43 | 9 (20 .9) | 23 | 9 (39.1) | ||
| Not known | 12 | 3 (25.0) | 43 | 7 (16.3) | 3 | 1 (33.3) | ||
| Total | 221 | 52 (24.0) | 916 | 96 (12.2) | 225 | 47 (22.7) | ||