ArticleJournal of neurodevelopmental disorders2023
Sleep disturbances are associated with irritability in ASD children with sensory sensitivities.
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- Predictors of irritability in pediatric autistic populations: a scoping review.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Problematic Screen Exposure and Sleep Disturbances in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Mediating Role of Sensory Processing.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- An open science resource for accelerating scalable digital health research in autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Examining the Relation Between Sleep Problems and Behavioural Challenges in Youth With Down Syndrome.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2025Article
- Characteristics and correlates of aggressive behavior in autistic youths.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- A clinical-translational review of sleep problems in neurodevelopmental disabilities.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundParent reports suggest that 44-84% of children with ASD exhibit sleep disturbances that are of clinical concern. Previous studies have reported that, in children with ASD, the severity of sleep disturbances is associated with the severity of either sensory problems or aberrant behaviors, but none have performed combined analyses with measures of both sensory and aberrant behaviors symptom domains from the same children.
methodsWe examined parent reports of 237 children with ASD, 1.4-8.7 years old, using the child sleep habits questionnaire (CSHQ), sensory profile (SP), and aberrant behaviors checklist (ABC).
resultsThe analyses revealed that sleep disturbances were most strongly associated with SP sensory sensitivity and ABC irritability scores. Together these scores explained 35% of the variance in total CSHQ scores. Moreover, sensory sensitivity scores moderated the association between irritability and sleep disturbances, indicating that sleep disturbances were significantly associated with irritability only in children with moderate to severe sensory sensitivities.
conclusionWe suggest that the three symptom domains may interact and exacerbate each other such that successful intervention in one symptom domain may have positive impact on the others. Further intervention studies testing this hypothesis are highly warranted.
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