ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2017
Variation in common preschool sleep problems as an early predictor for depression and anxiety symptom severity across time.
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- Treating preschooler behavioural sleep problems via parent-mediated telehealth: A randomized controlled trial.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Trial
- Sleep problems in preschool-onset major depressive disorder: the effect of treatment with parent-child interaction therapy-emotion development.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Trial
- Investigating the prospective associations of childhood sleep problems with persistent depression in emerging adulthood: the mediating role of inflammation.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- The relationship between mothers' maladaptive schemas and sleep problems in 12-to-36-month-old children: The role of attachment and sleep behaviors.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Impact of parental adverse childhood experiences on offspring anxiety and depressive symptoms: a three-year longitudinal study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Parental report-based assessment of sleep problems and mental health in an unreferred cohort of children with a fragile X premutation.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2026Article
- Feasibility of an Unguided, Parent-Focused, Online Program for Sleep Problems in Young Children: The Lights Out Online Program.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Day-to-day bidirectional associations between sleep and emotion states in early childhood: Importance of end-of-day mood for sleep quality.Sleep health · 2024Article
- Sleep patterns among preschool offspring of parents with and without psychopathology: Association with the development of psychopathology in childhood.Bipolar disorders · 2024Article
- Sleep Problems Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, and Typical Development.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Sleep and psychiatric symptoms in young child psychiatric outpatients - a Follow-up study.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2023Article
- Treatment Implications of Sleep-Related Problems in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: A Narrative Review of the Literature.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Review
- Exploring role of sleep aids in sleep problems in preschool children.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A Link between Parental Psychopathology and Preschool Depression: Take Care of Parents to Take Care of Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Early childhood sleep problems predict increased risk for the later development of suicidal thoughts.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
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- Sleep Duration and Internalizing Symptoms in Children.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2022Article
- Preschool sleep and depression interact to predict gray matter volume trajectories across late childhood to adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Association of sleep disorders with subfoveal choroidal thickness in preschool children.Eye (London, England) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundChild and adolescent psychopathology has been linked to increased sleep problems, but there has been less investigation of this relationship in younger samples with early-onset psychopathology. This study examined three specific but commonly observed aspects of sleep behaviors in young children - (i) Sleep onset latency, (ii) Refusal to sleep alone, and (iii) Nighttime awakenings - measured during preschool, and investigated whether these sleep problems predicted anxiety and/or depression across the next 6 years until school age (ages 9-13).
methodsData were analyzed from N = 292 participants from a prospective longitudinal study of preschool-age children (ages 3-6). At baseline, parent-reported clinical interviews of psychiatric symptoms, as well as sleep problems were conducted using the Preschool-Age Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA). Follow-up clinical interviews were also conducted annually through school age using the Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA).
resultsParent-reported sleep onset latency and refusal to sleep alone were significant independent predictors of MDD and anxiety severity, but not ADHD severity across time, even after controlling for family income-to-needs ratio and maternal internalizing psychopathology. In exploratory analyses using only healthy preschoolers, parent-reported sleep onset latency and refusal to sleep alone also predicted anxiety severity.
conclusionsWe demonstrate that specific, yet relatively common sleep problems predict diagnostic severity of depression and anxiety across time, but not ADHD. Increased clinical attention to and screening for sleep onset latency and refusal to sleep alone during preschool may be warranted.
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