Relationship between napping pattern and nocturnal sleep among Japanese nursery school children

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-110

  Komada, Yoko ^a,b   Asaoka, Shoichi ^a,b   Abe, Takashi ^a,b   Matsuura, Noriko ^c   Kagimura, Tatsuo ^a   Shirakawa, Shuichiro ^d   Inoue, Yuichi ^a,b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Laboratory of Applied Psychophysiology   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bedtime; Children; Nap; Nursery school; Sleep; Sleep log

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME NAP; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPANESE; MOTHER; NIGHT SLEEP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; SCHOOLS, NURSERY; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84355163103     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2011.10.017     Document Type: Article

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