Objective Sleep Measurement in Typically and Atypically Developing Preschool Children with ADHD-Like Profiles

Autor/inn/en	Goodlin-Jones, Beth L.; Waters, Sara; Anders, Thomas F.
Titel	Objective Sleep Measurement in Typically and Atypically Developing Preschool Children with ADHD-Like Profiles
Quelle	In: Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 40 (2009) 2, S.257-268 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-398X
DOI	10.1007/s10578-009-0124-2
Schlagwörter	Check Lists; Autism; Hyperactivity; Sleep; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Preschool Children; Child Behavior; Parents; Profiles; Developmental Delays; Behavior Problems; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Teacher Attitudes; Parent Attitudes; Child Behavior Checklist + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Checkliste; Autismus; Hyperaktivität; Schlaf; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Eltern; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Entwicklungsverzögerung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Lehrerverhalten; Elternverhalten
Abstract	Objective: This study investigated the association between preschool children's sleep patterns measured by actigraphy and parent-reported hyperactivity symptoms. Many previous studies have reported sleep problems in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-like symptoms. Methods: This study examined a cross-sectional sample of 186 preschoolers age 2-5 years in three groups: children with autism, children with developmental delay without autism, and typically developing children recruited from the general population. One week of actigraphic sleep data plus a parent report of the presence or absence of a current sleep problem were collected. Parents completed the child behavior checklist; a subset of children in preschool had teachers who completed the caregiver-teacher report form. Sleep behavior was compared for those children with and without clinical levels of attention-deficit/hyperactivity symptoms (T scores greater than or equal to 65). Results: The prevalence of a parent-defined sleep problem across the entire sample was 36.1%. Thirty-four percent of the sample had a parent-reported ADHD composite in the clinical range. Those children with a clinical ADHD profile were more likely to be described by parents as having a sleep problem. However, no significant differences in actigraphic sleep patterns or night-to-night sleep-wake variability were found for children with an ADHD profile in the clinical range. Conclusions: In this non-clinical sample of preschool age children, parental reports of clinical ADHD profiles were significantly associated with parental reports of sleep problems but not with actigraphically recorded sleep-wake data. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10