Sleep education in pediatric residency programs: a cross-cultural look

BMC Research Notes

Daniel YT Goh^1,10  Arthur Teng⁴  Rini Sekartini^1,11  Nichara Ruangdaraganon¹  Albert M Li⁵  Jun Kohyama⁷  Huynh Thi Duy Huong⁸  Mahesh Babu Ramamurthy⁹  Youngmin Ahn⁶  Alex Bartle²  Jodi A Mindell³ 

[1] Faculty of Medicine, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand;Sleep Well Clinics, Christchurch, New Zealand;The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, USA;Sydney Children’s Hospital and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong;Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea;Tokyo Bay Urayasu/Ichikawa Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan;University of Medicine and Pharmacy, HCMC, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam;National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Medical School University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

关键词: Pediatrics;    Education;    Residency;    Sleep disorders;    Sleep;   

Others  :  1143024
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-6-130

 received in 2012-11-08, accepted in 2013-03-19,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of education about sleep and sleep disorders in pediatric residency programs and to identify barriers to providing such education.

Methods

Surveys were completed by directors of 152 pediatric residency programs across 10 countries (Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United States-Canada, and Vietnam).

Results

Overall, the average amount of time spent on sleep education is 4.4 hours (median = 2.0 hours), with 23% responding that their pediatric residency program provides no sleep education. Almost all programs (94.8%) offer less than 10 hours of instruction. The predominant topics covered include sleep-related development, as well as normal sleep, sleep-related breathing disorders, parasomnias, and behavioral insomnia of childhood.

Conclusions

These results indicate that there is still a need for more efforts to include sleep-related education in all pediatric residency programs, as well as coverage of the breadth of sleep-related topics. Such education would be consistent with the increased recognition of the importance of sleep and under-diagnosis of sleep disorders in children and adolescents.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Mindell et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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