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Sleep Behavior in an Urban US Sample of School-Aged Children: A Critical Appraisal—Reply
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159:787-788.
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We thank Mr Currie for his interest in our study and are pleased to address his concerns. First, we agree that collecting data over a longer period may have enhanced the reliability of our estimates and further detailed individual variation in sleep behavior. However, the desire to maximize the amount of data collected was tempered by feasibility considerations; previous research has shown that adherence to self-monitoring declines markedly after a 1- to 2-week monitoring period.1 Moreover, although the children kept the sleep journal for "just 7 days," this period was longer than that used in much prior research and provided important data compared with single-night or retrospective summary estimates.
Concerning possible effects of seasonality, we conducted preliminary analyses to explore optimal ways of quantifying sleep patterns of children studied, collectively, over the entire year. The average difference in sleep time between winter and summer (the most different seasons . . . [Full Text of this Article] AUTHOR INFORMATION
James C. Spilsbury, PhD;
Amy Storfer-Isser, MS;
Dennis Drotar, PhD;
Carol L. Rosen, MD;
H. Lester Kirchner, PhD;
Heather Benham, MSN;
Susan Redline, MD
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