To Assess the Parental Perception on Sleep Habit among the Children in Pediatric Ward and OPD of Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur

Children are the worlds precious resources and the best hope for future. During clinical experiences, observation and rapport with mothers, investigators assess many children show difference in sleep patterns and irritated with daily life. The present study was aimed to assess the parental perception on sleep habit of children in the paediatric ward.

Assess the parental perception on sleep habit among children and to find relationship between sleep habit and selected socio demographic variables.

Quantitative experimental approach was used with descriptive design. The data were collected from 50 children by using random sampling technique. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

The findings of the study had shown that majority of subjects 24(48%) of the children belongs to age group of 2 to 3 years, 27(54%) were females, 25(50) of children were moderately nourished.39(78%) of children has a meal pattern of more than one hour before sleep, 60% like outdoor play, 35(70%) does not need toys for sleep. Majority of the parents 22(44%) belongs to 26-30 age group, 25(50%) belongs to females, 17(34%) were graduates, 40(80%) were healthy. we found that there is a relationship between clinical data variables such as nutritional status(p=0.041) with sleep habit of children. By using parental perception questionnaire, we found that parents have good perception on sleep habit among children as out of 50 samples 35(70%) secure good score, 14(28%) secure satisfactory score and only 1(2%) secure poor score.