Is Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Associated with Good Sleep Duration in Primary-school Children?

Overview

Journal Front Pediatr

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2022 Nov 17

PMID 36389385

Authors

Alessandra Buja

Giulia Grotto

Chiara Zampieri

Simona Fortunata Mafrici

Claudia Cozzolino

Tatjana Baldovin

Filippo Brocadello

Vincenzo Baldo

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Abstract

Objective: The Mediterranean diet (MD) contributes to preventing numerous chronic diseases and has benefits on cognitive development. Adherence to the MD is associated with sleep quality and duration in adults and adolescents, but this association seems to have been little investigated in primary-school children. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to verify whether good sleep duration was associated with adherence to the MD.

Design: The study enrolled a sample of Italian primary school children. Their mothers were asked to answer an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire investigating the children's adherence to the MD (using the KidMed score) and variables related to their lifestyles, behavioral traits and socio-economic factors. Logistic regression models were developed to analyze the association between adherence to the MD, entered as the dependent variable, and adequacy of sleep duration.

Setting: Primary schools in Padova, Italy.

Subjects: 267 Italian 6-year-olds in their first year of primary school.

Results: The multivariate analysis showed an association between adherence to the MD and hours of sleep: for children with a good sleep duration, the odds ratio of a poor-to-moderate adherence to the MD was 0.282 (95% CI, 0.109-0.681, < 0.05).

Conclusion: Ensuring an adequate sleep duration may be an important strategy for enhancing adherence to the MD. Sleep and dietary education should be included in future health promotion programs.

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