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We undertook a retrospective, secondary analysis of data pertaining to sleep in children with different NDDs collected through various research studies. The objective of this paper is to share lessons learned for data management, collation, and harmonization from a sleep study in children within and across NDDs from large, collaborative research networks in the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI). Three collaborative research networks contributed demographic data and data pertaining to sleep, internalizing symptoms, health-related quality of life, and severity of disorder for children with six different NDDs: autism spectrum disorder; attention deficit\/hyperactivity disorder; obsessive compulsive disorder; intellectual disability; cerebral palsy; and epilepsy. Procedures for data harmonization, derivations, and merging were shared and examples pertaining to severity of disorder and sleep disturbances were described in detail. Important lessons emerged from data harmonizing procedures: prioritizing the collection of CDEs to ensure data completeness; ensuring unprocessed data are uploaded for harmonization in order to facilitate timely analytic procedures; the value of maintaining variable naming that is consistent with data dictionaries at time of project validation; and the value of regular meetings with the research networks to discuss and overcome challenges with data harmonization. Buy-in from all research networks involved at study inception and oversight from a centralized infrastructure (OBI) identified the importance of collaboration to collect CDEs and facilitate data harmonization to improve outcomes for children with NDDs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fninf.2024.1385526","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,17]],"date-time":"2024-05-17T12:46:06Z","timestamp":1715949966000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Harmonizing data on correlates of sleep in children within and across neurodevelopmental disorders: lessons learned from an Ontario Brain Institute cross-program collaboration"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Patrick G.","family":"McPhee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Anthony L.","family":"Vaccarino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sibel","family":"Naska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Kirk","family":"Nylen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jose Arturo","family":"Santisteban","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Rachel","family":"Chepesiuk","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Andrea","family":"Andrade","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Stelios","family":"Georgiades","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Brendan","family":"Behan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Alana","family":"Iaboni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Flora","family":"Wan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sabrina","family":"Aimola","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Heena","family":"Cheema","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jan Willem","family":"Gorter","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,17]]},"reference":[{"volume-title":"Neurodevelopmental Disorders: DSM-5\u00ae Selections","year":"2015","key":"ref1"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1158378","DOI":"10.3389\/fninf.2023.1158378","article-title":"FAIR in action: brain-CODE-A neuroscience data sharing platform to accelerate brain research","volume":"17","author":"Behan","year":"2023","journal-title":"Front. 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