Researchers at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the US have found children are more likely to wake from their mother’s voice alarm rather than the sound of a smoke alarm.
Director of the research hospital’s disorders centre, Dr Mark Splaingard, says children are remarkably resistant to awakening by sound when asleep as they sleep more deeply than adults.
Researchers analysed the time it took for 176 children between the ages of 5 to 12 to escape their rooms when being awoken by their mother’s voice in contrast to standard smoke alarms.