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  • Digital health interventions
  • Child psychology

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  • Established treatments for pediatric sleep issues exist.
  • Families increasingly use smartphone applications for children's sleep concerns.
  • Limited evidence validates the information and services offered by sleep apps.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the features and claims presented in developer descriptions of children's sleep applications.
  • To assess the alignment of app descriptions with evidence-based pediatric sleep strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Searched Apple iTunes and Google Play stores for "kids sleep," "child sleep," and "baby sleep."
  • Collected data on app type, price, user ratings, and user numbers.
  • Thematically coded app descriptions and compared app claims against established behavioral sleep strategies.

Main Results:

  • Examined 83 app descriptions; only 2.4% offered sleep improvement strategies.
  • The majority of apps were sound/light-based (78%) or included games/stories (19%).
  • Only 21.6% of apps incorporated empirically supported behavioral sleep strategies, despite claims of instant sleep and developmental benefits.

Conclusions:

  • A wide array of children's sleep apps are available, but few are supported by evidence-based behavioral strategies.
  • Effective management of childhood sleep problems is crucial for physical, cognitive, and emotional development.
  • Future development of evidence-supported sleep apps could benefit from collaboration between sleep researchers and technology developers.