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Child and Parent Perceptions of Sleep Behaviours: Shaping Policy and Practice Development of School-based Sleep Promotion in Canada
DownloadFall 2020
Inadequate sleep in school-aged children presents as a public health concern across Canada and internationally. The school and home are critical learning environments where children live, learn, and play and have considerable effects on children’s health. As such, interventions that synchronize...
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Fall 2023
Background: Sleep deprivation is a substantial public health concern with 30% of Canadian adolescents not getting the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep. In addition to individual level risk factors for teen sleep deprivation such as increased use of electronic devices and greater sedentary...
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Selected Lifestyle Behaviours and Academic Achievement in the Era of the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
DownloadFall 2017
Lifestyle behaviours, including diet, physical activity, sleep, and sedentary behaviour, have been shown to be associated both with health outcomes, including childhood obesity, and academic achievement in children and youth. The improvement of these lifestyle behaviours to prevent chronic...
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Sleep Duration and the Gut Microbiota in Infancy: an exploration of the determinants of sleep and the association between sleep and the gut microbiota at 3 months of age in a Canadian birth cohort
DownloadSpring 2019
RATIONALESleep duration is critical to growth, cognitive development, and overall health status in infancy. Strategies to ensure that national recommendations for sleep duration in infants are met require knowledge of perinatal factors that affect infant sleep. Parental socioeconomic status...
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Spring 2021
This dissertation consists of two related studies that examine children’s sleep in the first three years of life. The literature pointed to a need for more objective data concerning sleep in young children (Gokdemir & Ersu, 2016). However, it was not feasible to conduct lab polysomnography (PSG)...