Sleep in Children with Asperger Syndrome |
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| Authors: | E. Juulia Paavonen Kimmo Vehkalahti Raija Vanhala Lennart von Wendt Taina Nieminen-von Wendt Eeva T. Aronen |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Child Psychiatry, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Helsinki, Lastenlinnantie 2, 00250 Helsinki, Finland;(2) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;(3) Department of Child Neurology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;(4) Department of Adolescent Psychiatry, Jorvi Hospital, Espoo, Finland;(5) Medical Centre Dextra, Helsinki, Finland |
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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. |
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| Keywords: | Asperger syndrome Children Sleep Sleepiness Sleep disturbances |
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