Dr Nabil Hasshim M.N.A.B.M.Hasshim@salford.ac.uk
Lecturer
Dr Nabil Hasshim M.N.A.B.M.Hasshim@salford.ac.uk
Lecturer
Jessica Bramham
Jennifer Keating
Rebecca A Gaffney
Lisa Keenan
Sarah Conroy
Fiona McNicholas
Alan Carr
Michelle Downes
The current study explored the potential influence of infant sleep, measured by parental report and actigraphy, and family functioning on attention development using eye tracking. The use of actigraphy in parallel with parental report, has the advantage of measuring participant’s sleep throughout the night without parental observation and the ability to objectively assess sleep quality. An eye-tracking version of the Gap-Overlap task was used to measure visual attention. Questionnaires and behavioural assessment were used to assess family function, and general cognitive development. Fifty infants (Mean age = 13.44 months, SD = 3.10) participated in the study, 23 of which had full final datasets. Results show that daytime sleep duration, as measured by parental report, and proportion of light sleep at night, as measured by actigraphy, are linked to visual attention. A higher proportion of light sleep, a marker of poorer sleep quality, and less daytime sleep were negatively linked with facilitation and disengagement on the Gap-Overlap task. Family functioning was not associated with attention. The results provide initial evidence that in addition to the amount of daytime sleep; quality of night-time sleep as measured by proportion of light sleep, is a potentially useful sleep variable which requires further focus in the study of attention development.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 18, 2022 |
Publication Date | Oct 23, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Sep 15, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 18, 2023 |
Journal | Children |
Electronic ISSN | 2227-9067 |
Publisher | MDPI |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 11 |
Pages | 1613 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/children9111613 |
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