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Table 2 Descriptive statistics through all five measurement points

From: A single-arm pilot study: can a parental sleep intervention for sleep-disturbed young children in individual settings improve children’s sleep, crying, eating, and parental distress in mothers and fathers?

 

T1

T2

T3

T4

T5

N

Mdn (Q1-Q3)

N

Mdn (Q1-Q3)

N

Mdn (Q1-Q3)

N

Mdn (Q1-Q3)

N

Mdn (Q1-Q3)

children’s sleeping

 SOL

36

20.93 (15.78–39.82)

36

19.29 (7.86–37.68)

25

20.00 (7.50–28.93)

18

18.00 (5.32–33.75)

14

27.15 (12.18–43.57)

 FNW

36

2.43 (1.29–3.82)

36

1.07 (0.43–2.53)

25

1.14 (0.14–2.23)

18

0.50 (0.00–1.80)

14

1.00 (0.40–2.04)

 DNW

36

25.22 (9.88–51.96)

36

11.93 (2.32–21.40)

25

5.71 (0.92–26.43)

18

3.34 (0.00–18.93)

13

9.29 (3.21–16.43)

 TSD

36

625.07 (590.93–654.27)

36

641.13 (609.47–663.36)

25

632.86 (605.71–676.07)

18

642.00 (615.72–676.93)

13

648.00 (598.10–674.29)

 SE

36

91.96 (88.25–94.71)

36

94.53 (90.77–97.48)

25

95.62 (93.11–97.78)

18

95.79 (92.83–98.43)

13

94.03 (91.76–96.86)

 BS

36

0.57 (0.14–1.00)

36

0.07 (0.00–0.66)

25

0.00 (0.00–0.29)

18

0.07 (0.00–1.00)

14

0.50 (0.11–1.00)

 NFI

36

0.76 (0.29–1.00)

36

0.22 (0.00–0.86)

25

0.14 (0.00–0.91)

18

0.00 (0.00–0.57)

14

0.36 (0.11–0.61)

children’s crying

 FRQ

35

1.75 (1.00–2.25)

35

1.25 (1.00–2.00)

24

1.00 (1.00–1.50)

19

1.00 (1.00–1.75)

14

1.50 (1.00–2.06)

 UUC

35

2.50 (2.00–2.50)

35

2.00 (1.50–2.50)

24

1.50 (1.00–2.50)

18

1.75 (1.38–2.63)

14

2.50 (2.00–3.25)

 DEF

34

2.00 (2.00–3.00)

35

2.00 (2.00–3.00)

24

2.00 (1.25–3.00)

19

2.00 (2.00–3.00)

14

2.50 (2.00–3.00)

children’s eating

 EAT

33

1.46 (1.15–1.85)

33

1.31 (1.15–1.73)

24

1.39 (1.23–1.60)

17

1.15 (1.08–1.54)

14

1.27 (1.14–1.46)

parental distress

 PD-M

33

27.00 (21.50–33.00)

33

23.00 (18.50–29.50)

23

23.00 (18.00–30.00)

16

24.00 (19.50–29.75)

13

21.00 (15.00–37.50)

 PD-F

27

23.00 (17.00–29.00)

28

19.00 (15.00–27.00)

19

19.00 (14.00–24.00)

14

16.50 (13.75–24.25)

11

20.00 (16.00–26.00)

 

N

n

%

N

n

%

N

n

%

N

n

%

N

n

%

Sleep disturbance

36

36

100

36

20

55.6

25

11

44.0

19

11

57.9

14

10

71.4

Crying problem

35

32

91.4

35

28

80.0

24

18

75.0

18

10

55.6

14

11

78.6

Eating problem

33

11

33.3

33

11

33.3

24

3

12.5

18

5

27.8

14

3

21.4

High PD-M

33

5

15.1

33

4

12.1

23

2

8.7

16

2

12.5

13

3

23.1

High PD-F

27

2

7.4

28

3

10.7

19

1

5.2

14

1

7.1

11

1

9.1

  1. Medians and quartiles across all five measurement time points. The baseline data (T1) are shown for the participants who also completed the post-measurement (T2). All values in percent are adjusted to the drop-out rate. ‘sleep disturbances’ refers to children with at least sleep onset and/or night waking disturbances (> = 2 episodes per week), ‘crying problems’ and ‘eating problems’ refers to children whose parents stated their children’s crying/eating patterns at least as mild problematic, ‘high PD-M’ and ‘high-PD-F’ refers to values of the PSI-SF subscale parental distress over the 85th percentile [35]
  2. Abbreviations: Mnd Median, Q1 25th percentile, Q3 75th percentile, T1 Pre, T2 Post, T3 Three months, T4 Six months, T5 Twelve months follow-up, SOL Sleep onset latency, FNW Frequency of nightly awakening, DNW Duration of nightly awakening, TSD Total nightly sleep duration, SE Sleep efficiency, BS Bed-sharing, NFI Nightly food intake, FRQ Crying frequency, UUC Unexplained and unsoothable crying, DEF Crying due to defiance, EAT Difficulties in eating behavior, PD-M Parental distress of mothers, PD-F Parental distress of fathers
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