Funding outcome

Sleep is a crucial component of a healthy lifestyle. Children who sleep well benefit from positive physical, mental and social health. Research has shown that not getting enough sleep can lead to poorer children's overall health and wellbeing. Despite this, many children are not getting enough sleep, impacting their overall health and well-being. One way to support children and families with their sleep is through school-based health promotion interventions using Comprehensive School Health (CSH) models. In CSH, children's wellbeing is prioritized along with educational outcomes and encompasses school, home, and community partners. This model helps focuses on partnerships between children, teachers, parents and clinicians. However, there is little research to understand how schools, parents and communities can work together to promote sleep in children. This qualitative research project will build on earlier work that found that students, teachers and parents support learning about sleep in schools. The aim is to understand how CSH partners view their role in helping children sleep well and to identify shared priorities around children's sleep. Interviews will be conducted with parents and clinicians to understand their perceptions of children's sleep and the barriers they face. We will then use a James Lind Alliance framework to engage all partners to collaboratively identify research and knowledge creation opportunities to help guide future research and identify unanswered questions about children's sleep. These findings will help set a direction for future research, help to inform policy, and identify essential considerations for health promotion programs.