ReviewJournal of pediatric psychology2025
Topical review: sleep regulation as a novel target for treating preschool-aged children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms.
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- Behavioral Sleep Treatment in ADHD Across Child and Adolescent Development: Recent Findings, Integration with Existing Interventions, and Emerging Directions.Current sleep medicine reports · 2026Article
- Association between insufficient sleep and mental health in preschoolers: effect modification by low household income.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Preschool attention and sleep support (PASS): protocol for a pilot feasibility randomized clinical trial.Frontiers in sleep · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveElevated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in preschoolers are a risk factor for poorer psychiatric health, cognitive deficits, and social and academic impairment across the lifespan. The first-line treatment for these preschoolers, behavioral parent training (BPT), reduces children's disruptive behaviors and parenting stress, yet its impact on core ADHD symptoms is inconsistent. Early interventions targeting biological mechanisms linked to core ADHD pathophysiology are critically needed.
methodsThis topical review explores sleep dysregulation as a potential key target for early intervention for ADHD symptoms among preschoolers.
resultsSleep dysregulation is common in school-aged children with ADHD, and treating sleep improves core ADHD symptoms in older children. Cross-sectional and prospective research with preschoolers offers compelling evidence that sleep dysregulation and ADHD symptoms are closely linked over the course of early development. BPT and behavioral sleep medicine (BSM) interventions share an underlying theoretical framework and could be streamlined to target sleep in addition to daytime behaviors.
conclusionsNovel early interventions targeting underlying biological mechanisms linked to core ADHD pathophysiology are critically needed to improve the trajectories of ADHD symptoms, comorbidity, and functional deficits for preschoolers with elevated ADHD symptoms. Sleep regulation is a promising mechanistic treatment target for this population, and future interventions may draw from the shared behavioral principles of BPT and BSM to target behaviors across the 24-hr period and employ scalable formats to optimize the number of families who can benefit from parent-based interventions targeting ADHD symptoms and sleep in early development.
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