Environmental phenol mixture during pregnancy and child sleep quality in the ECHO cohort.

Introduction: Poor sleep quality in childhood can predict sleep quality throughout the lifecourse and other health outcomes. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals can affect adults' sleep quality, and prenatal phenol exposure impacts fetal development.

Objective: To assess associations between prenatal phenol concentrations and child sleep outcomes.

Air pollution exposures and adverse childhood experiences in relation to sleep health in middle childhood.

Purpose/aims: Sleep health is an understudied but potentially important outcome of joint air pollution and psychosocial stress exposures in children. This study examined children's sleep health outcomes in relation to air pollution (PM, NO, O; aim 1), adverse childhood experiences (ACEs; aim 2), and air-pollution-by-ACEs interactions (aim 3).

Methods: Participants were from ECHO-PATHWAYS, a three-cohort consortium.

Trying to Do What's Best: Maternal Perspectives About Toddler Sleep Health Among an Underresourced Sample of Mothers With Diverse Racial and Ethnic Identities.

Introduction: This study describes mothers' knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices about their toddler's sleep health among an underresourced sample of mothers with diverse racial and ethnic identities.

Method: This was a descriptive qualitative study with 16 mothers and their 12- to 36-month-old child. Mothers completed a semistructured, audio-recorded interview about their toddler's sleep health.

Call to action: Prioritizing sleep health among US children and youth residing in alternative care settings.

Sleep health is a critical but under-recognized area of concern for the more than 650,000 children served by the US child welfare system each year. While sleep is vital to optimal child health and development, it is likely harmed by the multiple adversities and traumas experienced among children and youth residing in alternative care settings (ie, kinship care, nonrelative foster care, group homes). Children residing in alternative care settings have experienced, at a minimum, the trauma of removal from a biological parent's care and would benefit from holistic, comprehensive care approaches inclusive of sleep health.

Randomized trial of promoting first relationships for new mothers who received community mental health services in pregnancy.

The effectiveness of Promoting First Relationships (PFR), a 10-week home visiting program with video feedback, was tested in a randomized controlled trial involving 252 mothers and their 8- to 12-week-old infants. Mothers were eligible if they initiated treatment after mental health screening (depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD]) at a community or public health primary care center in pregnancy. At baseline, 51% had mild to severe depression symptoms, 54% had mild to severe anxiety, and 35% had PTSD.

Sleep Patterns, Problems and Ecology among Toddlers in Families with a Child Protective Services Maltreatment Referral.

Purpose: To describe sleep patterns, problems, and ecology among toddlers (13 to 36 months) from families referred to Child Protective Services (CPS) for maltreatment and to compare sleep duration among a subgroup (24- to 36-month-olds) to previously published population-based data.

Design And Methods: A secondary analysis of a larger longitudinal study was conducted. Participants included 113 parent-toddler dyads recruited out of CPS offices based on having a recent maltreatment referral.

Sleep Problems, Daily Napping Behavior, and Social-Emotional Functioning among Young Children from Families Referred to Child Protective Services.

Objective/background: Insufficient and/or poor-quality sleep may contribute to poor social-emotional well-being, and vice versa, among young children who have experienced maltreatment. This study examined longitudinal associations between sleep and social-emotional functioning among a sample of infants and toddlers from families involved with Child Protective Services (CPS) for maltreatment.

Participants: Participants were 123 parents and their infant or toddler (baseline age 10 to 24 months) from families referred to CPS for maltreatment.

Impact of a home visiting program on sleep problems among young children experiencing adversity.

Background: Adversity may negatively impact young children's sleep but receiving home visitation services could buffer children from this potential consequence of adversity.

Objective: This study examined whether young children's adverse experiences increased their risk for sleep problems and if Promoting First Relationships® (PFR), a home visitation program, reduced children's risk for sleep problems both directly and indirectly through increased parenting sensitivity.

Participants And Setting: Participants were 247 parents and their 10- to 24-month-old child recruited from Child Protective Services offices.