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Background: Achieving sleep consolidation, during the first years of life can be a key factor affecting child growth and development. To our knowledge, for the first time, we aimed to systematically assess the relationships between sleep consolidation and growth and development in early childhood.
Methods: Following the latest version of PRISMA, PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus were searched up to February 2023. We included observational studies in which 0-3-year-old children were enrolled and the association between sleep consolidation and either children's growth or development were assessed. The quality assessment was done using the NIH quality assessment tool.
Results: Out of the 342 studies initially screened, 18 studies met the eligibility criteria, encompassing a total of 10068 infants and toddlers under 3 years of age. Overall, not in all but in some studies sleep consolidation showed a significant association with better cognitive, social-emotional and language outcomes. However, the relationship between sleep consolidation and motor development was less clear, with no significant associations observed across the studies. Additionally, no significant connections were found between sleep consolidation and physical growth indices, such as body mass index (BMI) or weight gain.
Conclusion: According to the existing evidence, at least, the potential associations between sleep consolidation and child development particularly cognitive, social-emotional, and language cannot be ruled out. However, due to the heterogenicity of results and inconsistent findings in some studies, we cannot still strongly declare that sleep consolidation is a remarkable predictor for child growth and development.
背景:在生命的最初几年实现睡眠巩固是影响儿童生长发育的关键因素。据我们所知,这是我们第一次系统地评估儿童早期睡眠巩固与生长发育之间的关系。方法:检索截至2023年2月的最新版本PRISMA、PubMed、Web of Science和Scopus。我们纳入了0-3岁儿童的观察性研究,并评估了睡眠巩固与儿童生长发育之间的关系。采用NIH质量评价工具进行质量评价。结果:在最初筛选的342项研究中,18项研究符合资格标准,共包括10068名3岁以下的婴幼儿。总的来说,不是所有的研究,但在一些研究中,睡眠巩固与更好的认知、社会情感和语言成绩有显著的联系。然而,睡眠巩固和运动发育之间的关系不太清楚,在所有研究中没有观察到显著的关联。此外,睡眠巩固和身体生长指数,如体重指数(BMI)或体重增加之间没有明显的联系。结论:至少根据现有的证据,不能排除睡眠巩固与儿童发展,特别是认知、社会情感和语言之间的潜在联系。然而,由于结果的异质性和一些研究结果的不一致,我们仍然不能强烈地宣布睡眠巩固是儿童生长发育的显著预测因子。