Associations of children?s behavioural and emotional difficulties with bedtimes and sleep habits (AoW Adolescent Mental Health Collaboratory)

Sleep plays an important role in mental health and wellbeing, and sleep habits (usually referring to bedtime, waketime and duration) are associated with mental health and behavioural issues in children. Weekday-to-weekend sleep variability is associated with behaviour problems in children. This sleep variability is also associated with mental health difficulties in adolescence, but fewer studies have looked at the link to emotional difficulties in younger children. This study will use data from surveys of children at primary schools in Bradford to 1) describe the sleep patterns of children and 2) examine associations between sleep patterns and behavioural and emotional difficulties.