Abstract
This study examines the persistence of sleep problems over 18 months in 76 referred children with anxiety disorders and/or
attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and 31 nonreferred controls, and explores predictors of sleep problems at
follow-up (T2) in the referred children. Diagnoses were assessed at initial assessment (T1) using the semi-structured interview
Kaufman Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia. Sleep problems were assessed using the Children’s Sleep Habit
Questionnaire at T1 and at T2. Persistence rate of total sleep problems in the clinical range was 72.4 % in referred children,
and did not differ significantly between children with a T1 diagnosis of anxiety disorder (76.0 %), ADHD (70.6 %), anxiety
disorder and ADHD (68.8 %) or nonreferred controls (50.0 %) The total sleep problems score at T1 significantly predicted the
total sleep problems score at T2, whereas age, sex, parent education level and total number of life events did not.
attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and 31 nonreferred controls, and explores predictors of sleep problems at
follow-up (T2) in the referred children. Diagnoses were assessed at initial assessment (T1) using the semi-structured interview
Kaufman Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia. Sleep problems were assessed using the Children’s Sleep Habit
Questionnaire at T1 and at T2. Persistence rate of total sleep problems in the clinical range was 72.4 % in referred children,
and did not differ significantly between children with a T1 diagnosis of anxiety disorder (76.0 %), ADHD (70.6 %), anxiety
disorder and ADHD (68.8 %) or nonreferred controls (50.0 %) The total sleep problems score at T1 significantly predicted the
total sleep problems score at T2, whereas age, sex, parent education level and total number of life events did not.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Original Article
- Pages 1-15
- DOI 10.1007/s10578-012-0325-y
- Authors
- Berit Hjelde Hansen, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway, P.O. Box 4623, Nydalen, 0405 Oslo, Norway
- Benedicte Skirbekk, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway, P.O. Box 4623, Nydalen, 0405 Oslo, Norway
- Beate Oerbeck, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway, P.O. Box 4623, Nydalen, 0405 Oslo, Norway
- Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway, P.O. Box 4623, Nydalen, 0405 Oslo, Norway
- Hanne Kristensen, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway, P.O. Box 4623, Nydalen, 0405 Oslo, Norway
- Journal Child Psychiatry & Human Development
- Online ISSN 1573-3327
- Print ISSN 0009-398X