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This paper critiques a pilot study about sleep disorders in young children, and whether such disorders can be determined in infancy. The paper acknowledges that while such studies are important, this particular one had a variety of flaws that need to be addressed in future studies. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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minds. The truth is, however, that in our society today, children, particularly young children, are not necessarily obtaining all the sleep that they need. The reasons for this are many
and, according to various experts, can range from too much stimulation in the form of television programs all the way to genetic predisposition.
The purpose of this paper is to examine one such sleep study, a pilot study that attempted to classify the sleep difficulties of young children. This study, conducted by
Erica Gaylor, Beth Goodlin-Jones and Thomas Anders, was published in the January 2001 Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The study itself is called the "Classification
of Young Childrens Sleep Problems: A Pilot Study." As the entire paper is a critique of this study, sources will not be cited - it should be assumed by the
reader, however, that the source is this particular study. Overall, the feeling about this study is that while the use of videotape
was a good one with which to determine the habits of sleeping infants, the sample selected for this particular study was small and not demographically representative of the general population.
The study itself focused on the sleep pattern of infants in an attempt to determine the development of any possible disturbed sleep
during toddlerhood. In performing this study, the researchers examined over the long term sleep patterns of 33 children, assessing these patterns at 12 months of age, and then at 3
1/4 years of age. In both cases, the children were videotaped while asleep. And in all cases, the subjects were full-term, normally developing infants, with families of the infants having
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