Introduction
Sleep constitutes an opportunity for the body to conserve energy,
restore its normal processes, promote physical growth, and support
mental development. It also plays a vital and often underestimated role
in the growth and development of children. Sleep problems have been
reported to have high prevalence rates throughout childhood, affecting
25% to 50% of preschoolers and up to 40% of adolescents1-3.
The taking of a detailed medical history is the first method that should
be applied to screen for and identify pediatric sleep problems, followed
by polysomnography (PSG), which is a powerful diagnostic sleep medicine
tool that can be used to continuously and simultaneously record multiple
different physiological parameters of a sleeping individual.
In this study, we retrospectively collected the data of children who
underwent PSG in our hospital due to sleep problems. The indications of
these PSG studies and the final diagnoses of these patients were then
analyzed and evaluated.