Relationship between snoring with sleep behavioral and movement disturbance (SBMD) in children 2–12 years of Qom city

Abstract

Introduction Background: sleep disturbance is one of the most important subjects in pediatric medicine which it’s prevalent in society and have many important effects on child social function and quality of life. Sleep behavior and movement disturbance (SBMD) is seen in different kind of sign and symptom such as night terror, leg movement, walking and go to bed lately. Also Snoring is common in children. Approximately prevalence is 12% that is one of the important reasons of sleep disturbance. This study aim to assessment of relationship between snoring and SBMD in Qom city 2–12 years children. Materials and methods We have chosen 100 children with snoring as study group and 100 healthy children as control group during 3 months. Their parents fill two questionnaire of Berlin about snoring Childhood Sleep Questionnaire comprise of 22 item of SBMD like sleep walking, sleep talking, night terror. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to measure the strength of association between continuous variables. For analysis of qualitative parameters, we use from chi-square and if it was required, checked by fisher’s exact test. Data analysis was done in SPSS version 18 and P value below than 0.05 was significant. Results Result: The mean age of children was 6/8 years, mean height 116 cm, mean weight was 25.39 kg and 35% were male. There were significant correlation among SBMD in case and control (13.78 vs 11.45 item, p Conclusion This study has showed the importance of sleep medicine in children we can prevent children from many sleep disturbances with on time diagnosis of snoring. It is important that we educated sleep subject to parents for helping to achieve better sleep in children. Keywords: Snoring, sleep behavioral and movement disturbance, children. Acknowledgements Thanks from staff of Islamic Azad Uiversity of Qom.