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Sexual abuse and sleep in children and adolescents: A systematic review.
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- Interventions for suicidal and self-injurious related behaviors in adolescents with psychiatric disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Translational psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of childhood trauma on depressive symptoms in bipolar adolescents: the mediating effect of sleep disturbance.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Insomnia and depressive symptoms mediate childhood abuse and psychotic experience of male juvenile offenders: a chain mediation model.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Child sexual abuse and sleep disturbances among adolescents: the role of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Characterization of sleep difficulties in maltreated children and adolescents.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Sleep, Emotional, and Behavioral Problems Among Youth Presenting to Treatment Following Sexual Abuse.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2024Article
- The association between child sexual abuse and self-reported sleep in adolescent girls.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2023Article
- The bridge symptoms of childhood trauma, sleep disorder and depressive symptoms: a network analysis.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Examining the attitudes of sexually abused and non-abused individuals towards marriage in terms of ambivalent sexism.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Childhood sexual abuse has pervasive effects on well-being and psychosocial functioning in children and adolescents, including negative impacts on sleep. This study aimed to systematically review and assess the literature documenting associations between childhood sexual abuse and sleep in minors (0-18 years old) and provide recommendations for future studies and clinical practice. A systematic search was conducted independently by two researchers in six databases. Inclusion criteria included English or French published articles and dissertations/theses/abstracts reporting original quantitative data examining at least a bivariate association between childhood sexual abuse and sleep. A total of 5031 titles and abstracts and 70 full articles were screened. The final sample included 26 studies. Most studies (88%) reported a significant association between childhood sexual abuse and several sleep dimensions (such as difficulty falling asleep, complaints of poor sleep, nightmares). Studies' quality, as rated using the National heart, lung, and blood institute's quality assessment tool, varied greatly: 23% were rated as good, 38.5% as fair, and 38.5% as poor. Childhood sexual abuse negatively impacts sleep in childhood and adolescence. These results inform future research, ideally with strong prospective/longitudinal designs and using more specific sleep measures, aiming to promote optimal sleep in sexually abused minors.
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