The BAby’s Sleep Questionnaire: Infant Sleep and Parental Understanding and Misperceptions

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.26268
In this Papers Podcast, Professor Sooyeon (Aly) Suh discusses her co-authored JCPP paper ‘Validation of the Parental Understanding and Misperceptions about BAby’s Sleep Questionnaire using auto-videosomnography’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13797).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include.

• How prevalent paediatric sleep disorders are and how these sleep problems impact children.
• The association between parental cognition and children’s sleep.
• How the questionnaire was developed and the cultural differences in sleep patterns.
• The importance of re-examining parental beliefs and attitudes about their child’s sleep.
• Implications of the findings for researchers & how the findings might be translated into practice to support CAMH professionals and clinicians.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.