Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The use of children in labor continues to be a significant social and public health problem, with repercussions that extend beyond the pressure on their bodies to include their emotional and psychological well-being. Sleep disruption is one of the most understudied consequences of child labor, despite the fact that it has a direct impact on children's physical development, cognitive growth, and general health. The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of sleep disruptions among child laborers as well as the factors that are responsible for them. The data were obtained by structured questionnaires and interviews using a cross-sectional methodology. The topics that were covered were socio-demographic background, kind and duration of job, working environment, daily workload, exposure to physical and mental stress, and living situations. The standardized sleep quality indicators were utilized in order to evaluate the patterns of sleep. A number of factors, including but not limited to lengthy working hours, unpredictable schedules, night shifts, a lack of rest times, and bad sleeping surroundings, have been identified as important causes to disrupted sleep among child laborers. The problems that are associated with sleep are made more worse by socioeconomic hardship, dietary deficits, and psychological stress.
Source: Universal Research Reports
Authors: Pooja maurya, Shalini Agarwal,
Institution: Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
Language: English
Topic: Sleep and related disorders
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414933204
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