Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Çocuk Dergisi, cilt.23, sa.2, ss.129-136, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
Objective: This research has been carried out to investigate the factors
affecting the sleep of babies between 0-2 years of age.
Materials and Method: The participants of the study are composed of 60
mothers with babies between the ages of 0-2 years who applied to a
family health center in the Beykoz district of Istanbul Provincial Health
Directorate to have their children or themselves examined or treated. The
research is a descriptive study that uses the convenience sampling
technique. The researcher and advisor prepared two forms for use in the
study. The questions on the Parent-Baby Information Form are intended
for learning the parents’ and babies’ sociodemographic information, and
the Mother Interview Form contains qualitative and quantitative questions
that were prepared to collect information about the factors affecting their
babies’ sleep patterns. The research findings were obtained using mixed
methods and analyzed using the program SPSS. Frequency analyses and
chi-squared tests were also used to analyze the data. The analysis results
consider p values less than 0.05 (p ≤ 0.05) to be statistically significant.
Results: The mothers were mostly determined to simultaneously regulate the
environmental sounds and lights in their babies’ sleep environment, with the
majority of them putting their babies in their cribs in the same room as them.
The study learned that the majority of mothers accompany their babies when
they go to sleep, and most of the babies have difficulty falling asleep at night.
Most of the babies were determined to fall asleep at night by suckling on their
mother’s breast and to prefer a pacifier as a sleeping aid after falling asleep at
night. According to the research results, when comparing the babies’ sleeping
positions at monthly intervals, a statistically significant difference was seen to
occur between them (p=0.025).
Conclusion: The study results reflect the perceptions of the mothers in the
sample group regarding their babies’ sleep patterns, sleep routines, sleep
environments, and sleep hygiene. In addition, the chi-squared results
showed the monthly intervals to affect the babies’ sleep positions.
Keywords: Infants, Sleeping Habits, Sleep Patterns