Paavonen E Juulia, Vehkalahti Kimmo, Vanhala Raija, von Wendt Lennart, Nieminen-von Wendt Taina, Aronen Eeva T
Department of Child Psychiatry, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Helsinki, Lastenlinnantie 2, 00250, Helsinki, Finland.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2008 Jan;38(1):41-51. doi: 10.1007/s10803-007-0360-x. Epub 2007 Mar 6.
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.
研究了52名患有阿斯伯格综合征（AS）的儿童与61名健康对照者（所有受试者年龄在5至17岁之间）的睡眠障碍患病率。与对照组相比，AS儿童在入睡和维持睡眠方面的问题、与睡眠相关的恐惧、对睡眠的消极态度以及日间嗜睡更为常见。睡眠时间短（<9小时）在AS组中几乎是对照组的两倍（59%对32%），入睡问题的风险在AS组中比对照组高五倍多（53%对10%）。儿童报告的睡眠问题在AS组中也比对照组更普遍（58%对7%）。结果表明，应常规评估AS儿童的睡眠障碍。
