{"id":1051,"date":"2013-07-11T04:22:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T04:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2013-07-11T04:22:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T04:22:58","slug":"the-high-cost-of-sleep-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2013\/07\/11\/the-high-cost-of-sleep-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"The high cost of sleep problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2013\/07\/sleeping-boy-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1056\" alt=\"Sleep\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2013\/07\/sleeping-boy-3.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>At least one in three children under the age of seven years has trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep through the night, costing the government $27.5 million each year in health services.<\/p>\n<p>New research published in the British Medical Journal has found that 20 per cent of children had trouble falling asleep at night, and 15 per cent had problems staying asleep.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep problems in children impact children\u2019s quality of life and are associated with problems in behaviour, social and emotional functioning, concentration and learning, as well as parent mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Sleep research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcri.edu.au\/media\/295050\/bmj_open-2013-quach-__2_.pdf\">Read the research paper here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn about managing child sleep problems:\u00a0<a title=\"Grow &amp;amp; Thrive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/growthrive\/sleep\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grow &amp; Thrive<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Raising Children Network\" href=\"http:\/\/raisingchildren.net.au\/articles\/sleep_problems_child.html\" target=\"_blank\">Raising Children Network<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research finds $27.5 million each year is being spent on health services for children with sleep problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5935,5939],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-and-papers","category-research-and-programs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}