Abstract
Purpose
Poor sleep quality is associated with childhood obesity, and Latinx children have
the highest prevalence of obesity in the United States. Parents are key agents to
ensuring good sleep quality among children, but limited research has examined sleep
parenting among Latinx working parents who may have added responsibilities.
Design and methods
Working Latinx parents of 2-to-5-year old children participated in in-depth interviews
exploring parenting and familial contexts of child sleep. Main topics in the interview
guide included sleep-related parenting practices, social support, cultural influences,
and intervention service delivery and content preferences. Thematic analysis was used
to analyze data.
Results
Twenty parents completed the interview. The following themes emerged: Sleep parenting,
sleep knowledge, impact of familial structures, family commitments, child temperament,
and broader contextual factors on sleep, and intervention content and design ideas.
Across participants, employment was reported to be a barrier to effective sleep parenting.
Parents also reported engaging in practices that may interfere with sleep quality
such as using screen time as a distraction and reducing naptime during the weekends
to increase the amount of family time. Family-level factors such as co-parenting and
spousal support were reported to facilitate sleep parenting. Participants also indicated
the need for more sleep parenting knowledge and a preference for mobile platforms
and social media to deliver information.
Conclusions
Results not only fill critical gaps in the literature, but also highlight the variability
in parents' approaches to sleep parenting and an urgent need for intervention/programming
efforts to target Latinx parent's sleep knowledge and parenting.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: August 12, 2020
Accepted:
July 16,
2020
Received in revised form:
July 12,
2020
Received:
April 23,
2020
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