Sleep in children with Asperger syndrome

Juulia E Paavonen; Kimmo Vehkalahti; Raija Vanhala; Lennart von Wendt; Taina Nieminen-von Wendt; Eeva Aronen

doi:10.1007/s10803-007-0360-x

Sleep in children with Asperger syndrome

Juulia E Paavonen, Kimmo Vehkalahti, Raija Vanhala, Lennart von Wendt, Taina Nieminen-von Wendt, Eeva Aronen

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Abstract

"The prevalence of sleep disturbances in 52 children with Asperger syndrome (AS) as compared with 61 healthy controls (all subjects aged 5-17 years) was investigated. Problems with sleep onset and maintenance, sleep-related fears, negative attitudes toward sleeping, and daytime somnolence were more frequent among children with AS than among controls. Short sleep duration (< 9 h) was almost twofold (59% vs. 32%), and the risk for sleep onset problems more than fivefold (53% vs. 10%) more common in the AS group than in the control group. Child-reported sleeping problems were also more prevalent in the AS group than in controls (58% vs. 7%). The results suggest that sleep disturbances should be routinely evaluated in children with AS."

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume	38
Pages (from-to)	41-51
Number of pages	11
ISSN	0162-3257
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-007-0360-x
Publication status	Published - 2007
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

112 Statistics and probability

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