NCT06816225

Association Between Sleep and Psychomotor Development in Early Childhood

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 119 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universidade do Porto · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 4 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Sleep is a neurophysiological active process essential for healthy physical and cognitive development. In Portugal, there is no recent and objective data on how children sleep. Given the importance of sleep in child health and development as well as the health gains achieved by establishing healthy sleep patterns since childhood, it seems extremely relevant to assess the various sleep parameters of Portuguese children and correlate them with their psychomotor and anthropometric development indicators. The results of this research work may support the implementation of sleep health education measures among parents, educators and policy makers, thus contributing to support the implementation of practices that promote sleep quality, napping until later in life as well as to promote the health of future adults.

Conditions

• Sleep

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Actigraphy	Actigraphy is a validated complementary means of diagnosis, the gold standard for the assessment of circadian rhythm.
OTHER	Schedule of Growing Skills II	Assessment scale for skills in child development from 0 to 6 years.
OTHER	Questionnaire Children Sleep habits	Questionnaire for assessing sleep habits, validated for the Portuguese population (4) which allows us to understand the sleep hygiene habits of the child
OTHER	Melatonin evaluation	Melatonin will be measured in the first-morning urine and it is considered to be a good marker of plasma MLT level since its concentration is highly correlated with nocturnal plasma melatonin.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-01
• Primary completion: 2025-01-31
• Completion: 2025-12-01
• First posted: 2025-02-10
• Last updated: 2025-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal