Association of Sleep Problems and Melatonin Use in School-aged Children

JAMA Pediatr. 2019 Sep 1;173(9):883-885. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.2084.

Authors

M Elisabeth Koopman-Verhoeff^{1

2}, Michiel A van den Dries², Judith J van Seters², Maartje P C M Luijk¹, Henning Tiemeier^{1

3}, Annemarie I Luik^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus University Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
² The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines subjectively and objectively assessed sleep and melatonin use in children.