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.