1. Sleep Problems and Their Relationship to Maladaptive Behavior Severity in Psychiatrically Hospitalized Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Author
-
Elise M, Sannar, Tamara, Palka, Carol, Beresford, Christine, Peura, Desmond, Kaplan, Mary, Verdi, Matthew, Siegel, Shir, Kaplan, Marco, Grados, and Diane, Williams
- Subjects
Hospitals, Psychiatric ,Male ,Sleep Wake Disorders ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Autism Spectrum Disorder ,Irritability ,Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,mental disorders ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Young adult ,Child ,Psychiatry ,Problem Behavior ,05 social sciences ,medicine.disease ,Stereotypy (non-human) ,Autism spectrum disorder ,Child, Preschool ,Cohort ,Autism ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Child, Hospitalized ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
We examined the relationship between sleep duration and awakenings to Aberrant Behavior Checklist-Community (ABC-C) and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) scores in hospitalized youth with ASD and behavioral disturbance. Participants included 106 patients with a stay of at least 10 nights. Sleep in the hospital was recorded by staff observation. Higher scores on the ABC-C (irritability, stereotypy, and hyperactivity subscales) at admission were significantly associated with fewer minutes slept during the last five nights of hospitalization. There was no association between total awakenings and ABC-C scores or ADOS-2 comparison scores. Improved understanding of the relationship between sleep quality and maladaptive behavior in this challenging cohort of patients with ASD is vital to the definition and design of future effective interventions.
- Published
- 2017
- Full Text
- View/download PDF