Educational campaign on young children's sleep (Vénissieux)
Year-long campaign in the 1980s in Vénissieux, a Lyon suburb, for parents of the 3,863 children aged 2-6 in its nursery schools: early, pleasant bedtimes, naps, and no routine use of drugs for sleep problems. Afterwards children went to bed earlier and had fewer sleep problems.
- Years
- 1986–1987
- Country
- France
- Topic
- Sleep
- Asks people to
- StartStop
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- PrintSchool
- Audience
- Parents
Evidence
ObservationalPositive
Parent questionnaires before and after: earlier bedtimes, less early waking, better bedtime conditions, a trend to longer nights, fewer sleep disorders, and better conditions for school naps.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Ville de Vénissieux and school health services Foreign government, lead
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- [Educational campaign on the sleep of young children]. evaluation · 1987 · PMID 3448589
Research notes
Years and sponsor inferred (paper 1987); confirm. Found through OpenAlex (October 2026 sleep pass, see docs/sleep-campaigns-openalex.md). Findings paraphrased from abstracts; check the paper before quoting a number.
Record cases/venissieux-child-sleep-campaign.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign