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Michelle Garrison, PhD, MPH

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Michelle Garrison, PhD, MPH

Children's Title: Principal Investigator

Academic Title: Acting Assistant Professor, Health Services Department, University of Washington

Research Center: Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development

"Healthy sleep plays such a critical role in child and adolescent development. We know from previous research that sleep problems can lead to behavior problems, difficulties in school, obesity, and increased injuries. What's really interesting to me as a scientist is how interconnected the relationships between sleep, media use, physical activity, and mood are. If you draw a flow chart, you end up with arrows pointing in almost every possible direction. For example, you might need to change media habits or physical activity to make a big difference in a child's sleep -- but once the sleep improves, you also see positive effects on mood, behavior, and activity. And so what's exciting for me as a researcher is the big impact we can have when we work with families to optimize a child's sleep."

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Overview

Medical/Professional School
University of Washington , Seattle, Epidemiology
University of Washington , Seattle, Epidemiology
Research Description

Dr. Garrison's research focuses on the interactions between sleep, media use, and physical activity, and how these in turn affect child and adolescent health and behavior. Her recent research has found that evening media use is associated with sleep problems in preschool children, as is violent media content at any time of the day. Upcoming research studies include an intervention to improve sleep in preschool children; studies looking at causality in the relationships between media use, sleep problems, and obesity; and examining how different types of video games affect sleep in early adolescents.

Publications

Controller medication use and sleep problems in pediatric asthma: a longitudinal case-crossover analysis.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine , 2011 Sep: 826-30
Media use and child sleep: the impact of content, timing, and environment.
Pediatrics , 2011 Jul: 29-35
Pediatric hospital adherence to the standard of care for acute gastroenteritis.
Pediatrics , 2009 Dec: e1081-7
Preschool-aged children's television viewing in child care settings.
Pediatrics , 2009 Dec: 1627-32
Variations between hospitals in antireflux procedures in children.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine , 2009 Jul: 658-63
Effect of block play on language acquisition and attention in toddlers: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine , 2007 Oct: 967-71
Aminoglycoside-based triple-antibiotic therapy versus monotherapy for children with ruptured appendicitis.
Pediatrics , 2007 May: 905-11
Risk of death for children with down syndrome and sepsis.
The Journal of pediatrics , 2005 Dec: 748-52
The impact of psychiatric comorbidities on readmissions for diabetes in youth.
Diabetes care , 2005 Sep: 2150-4
Mental illness hospitalizations of youth in Washington State.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine , 2004 Aug: 781-5

Additional Offices

Seattle Children's Research Institute
CW8-6 Child Health, Behavior and Development
2001 Eighth Ave
Seattle, WA 98121
206-884-8266

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