Bird, M.

Sleeping Soundly: Understanding the translation of sleep promotion at school to sleep behaviours at home.
Bird, M.A., Montemurro, G., Storey, K.

Sleep is increasingly recognized as an essential component of a healthy lifestyle and is crucial to children's development. However, children's sleep has been declining in recent decades. Inadequate sleep is associated with obesity, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, anxiety, depression, suicide risk, and poor academic performance. School and home environments are recognized as critical settings to shape healthy behaviours among children, and school-based health promotion efforts have recently adopted intervention models such as the comprehensive school health (CSH) approach to address student health holistically. This approach is utilized by health promotion initiatives such as APPLE Schools (A Project Promoting healthy Living for Everyone in schools). Given that sleep behaviours learned at school are carried out in the home, the objective of this research is to examine student's perceptions of their own sleep behaviour and determine if and how they initiate sleep behaviour changes in the home: (RQ) Do sleep behaviours learned at school translate to the home environment?

This research utilized photovoice as both a qualitative method and data generating strategy. Focused ethnography was used to explore contextual meanings of sleep behaviour within participating APPLE schools. Fifty grade 4 & 5 students from participating APPLE schools with a school-based sleep education initiative were recruited in Winter 2019. Students were given cameras and asked to take photos of sleep behaviours in their home. Photos were then discussed during semi-structured interviews using an established protocol. Data collection and latent content analysis occurred concurrently, with students participating in the analytic process during interviews and through follow-up classroom presentations.

In progress. Expected data analysis completion is October 2019.

This research will increase our understanding of the translation of school-based sleep education to the home environment among students. Results can help to inform and improve CSH implementation related to sleep.