Sleep in Hospitalized Children at MSKCC

A Pilot Study: Sleep in Hospitalized Children With Cancer and Related Diseases

The investigators want to better understand how children sleep at night at MSKCC, so that the investigators can learn how to improve the sleeping environment.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parent/Patient must provide written consent
• Patient must be between the ages of: Newborn - ≤ 18 years of age
• Patient is expected to be admitted to the Pediatric floor at MSK for at least 2 nights (patients/parents will not be approached for consent on day of admission or day of discharge)
• Patient/parent must be English speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

• Expected length of stay of fewer than 2 nights (for example.: if admitted Monday and discharged Tuesday, patient/parent will not be eligible).
• Patient /Parent unable to complete questionnaire due to education or language barriers.
• Patients admitted to the PICU. (Only children on M9 will be included. It is known that sleep in the PICU is highly disordered; as such, we will be excluding PICU patients from this study).