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- Evaluation of two projects on Sleep Education: “Sleep Schools Project” and “Sleep more to Read better”Publication . Pinto, Teresa Rebelo; Pinto, Joana Carneiro; Pinto, Helena Rebelo; Brito, Filipa; Cravo, Filomena; Luís, Paula; Paiva, TeresaObjectives: The present work aims to present the activities of sleep education and sleep awareness, whenever an educational model is assumed: a three-dimensional model about sleep, addressing sleep habits, personal and environmental factors with nine subcategories, together with the associated community projects around sleep and scientific research activities. Two projects are evaluated: Sleep Schools Project (SSP) and Sleep more to Read better (SMRB) Methods: In spite of somewhat different objectives both projects used similar methodologies and therefore are evaluated together. The program was developed in public and private Portuguese schools, from “kindergarden” to Secondary school???. The observation period is 5 years. The number of educational and awareness actions was computed along project evolution and trends measured. Idem for community projects around sleep, research presentations, education materials and media dissemination (direct and indirect impacts). Besides, a quantitative evaluation of the territorial areas covered and the number of target subjects involved was done. Furthermore the accuracy and efficiency of the model was assessed. Chi square, regression and trend analysis were applied. Results: The attendants, and project targets, were teachers, parents, students, health professionals. The number of sessions performed from 2009 to 2014 increased exponentially. ??? The same holds for the number of attendants and visited schools???. The total number of scientific communications was 37; while … questionnaires and 1 model were validated. The number of community projects also increased and is presently …. The number of communication in the media (TV, radio and news papers also increased significantly. The territorial distribution shows a higher density of actions in the littoral regions with significantly lower values in the interior and southern regions. Conclusions: The present data are clear indicators of significant awareness raising, but future work must deal with measurement of impacts upon children/ adolescents sleep behaviors
- Headaches, sleep and academic success in adolescents.Publication . Pinto, Teresa Rebelo; Pinto, Joana Carneiro; Pinto, Helena Rebelo; Paiva, TeresaIntroduction and Objectives Sleep complaints often correlate with other health and social problems. During a national study about sleep habits in adolescents, we observed a very high frequency of headaches, so the aim of this work was to analyse what could be correlated with this complaint in terms of sleep duration, daytime sleepiness, academic success, age and gender. Materials and Methods We used a specific questionnaire that included Cleveland Adolescent Sleepiness Scale (CASQ) and other variables concerning sleep related habits, sleep complaints, health complaints and demographics. Teachers from 31 schools across Portugal collected data between January and April, 2012. We used SPSS to analyse data. Results The 6838 participants were between 12 and 22 years old, mean=14.97(1.99); 53.3% were females. From the whole sample, 53.8% (3671) students reported having headaches regularly. Those with a headache complaint slept less hours during weekdays (p=0.008) and more hours on weekends (p=0.045); they also had more daytime sleepiness (p=0.000), but showed no differences on academic success (p>0.050). As expected girls had more headaches than boys (p=0.000) and there were no differences across age, since all groups had high frequency of headaches (p=0.098). Conclusions These results suggest that in adolescents headaches are also related to sleep deprivation or sleep problems. In the future, we should pay more attention to headaches as a symptom of sleep problems and explore which factors may mediate the risk of academic failure in the presence of headaches. Furthermore, the high level of headaches in younger people across all age groups supports the need of early intervention.
- Perceções de hábitos de sono na família: estudo psicométrico do Children Sleep Habits Questionnaire e do Sleep Self Report para crianças portuguesasPublication . Loureiro, Helena Cristina; Pinto, Teresa Rebelo; Pinto, Joana Carneiro; Pinto, Helena Rebelo; Paiva, TeresaEste estudo tem o seu foco numa metodologia de avaliação do sono das crianças, a partir da perceção de pais e filhos. Para o efeito, são apresentados e discutidos os resultados da avaliação das qualidades métricas do Children Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) e do Sleep Self Report (SSR) para crianças portuguesas. Utiliza-se uma amostra comunitária constituída por 574 pais e 306 crianças (Idade: M=8.26; DP=6.12), e uma amostra clínica constituída por 60 pais e 30 crianças (Idade: M=8.73; DP=1.14). O CSHQ-PT apresenta resultados médios entre 43.83 (DP=6.12) e 53.99 (DP=10.43), e níveis de consistência interna entre .77 e .86, para as amostras comunitária e clínica respetivamente, e níveis fiabilidade teste-reteste de .80, na amostra comunitária. A curva ROC apresenta um ponto de corte de 44 (81% sensibilidade; 64% especificidade). O SSR-PT apresenta resultados médios entre 34.93 (DP=5.71) e 39.87 (DP=7.81), e níveis de consistência interna entre .70 e .81, para as amostras comunitária e clínica respetivamente, e níveis fiabilidade teste-reteste de .75, na amostra comunitária. A comparação entre as amostras indicou diferenças estatisticamente significativas em ambos os instrumentos (CSHQ-PT: z=-7.91, p=.000; SSR-PT: (z=-3.34, p=0.001), a favor da amostra clínica. Verificaram-se também correlações estatisticamente significativas entre pais e filhos em 14 itens na amostra comunitária, e 12 itens na amostra clínica. Estes resultados evidenciam a robustez desta metodologia de avaliação na identificação de problemas de sono em crianças portuguesas em idade escolar.