Journal
SLEEP
Volume 31, Issue 12, Pages 1745-1747Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/31.12.1745
Keywords
Children; cognitive processes; insomnia; presleep arousal
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- British Academy
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship
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Study Objectives: To determine if associations between presleep arousal and sleep disturbance reported in adults are also characteristic of children. Design: Linear regression analyses examined whether somatic and cognitive presleep arousal predicted sleep disturbances. Setting: Two inner city schools, London, UK. Participants: One hundred twenty-three children aged 8 to 10 years, 49% boys, from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Interventions: N/A. Measurements and Results: Children completed the Sleep Self-Report and the Pre-sleep Arousal Scale (comprising somatic and cognitive subscales). Parents completed the Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire. In separate models, both somatic (beta = 0.44, P < 0.001, R-2 = 0.19) and cognitive (beta = 0.48, P < 0.001, R-2 = 0.23) presleep arousal predicted the Sleep Self-Report total score. Somatic (beta = 0.28, P <,01, R-2 = 0.08) and cognitive (beta = 0.37, P < 0.001, R-2 = 0.14) arousal also predicted Sleep Self-Report insomnia items in separate models. These results were partially replicated when using the parent report of the Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire. When somatic and cognitive items were included in the same models, cognitive but not somatic arousal significantly predicted (most definitions of) sleep disturbance. Conclusions: Cognitive, and to a lesser extent somatic, presleep arousal appears to be associated with sleep disturbances in children. This suggests that further research into cognitive aspects of sleep disturbance in children is warranted-as incorporating this information into treatments may eventually prove fruitful.
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