The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Autism. 2020 Nov;24(8):2298-2303. doi: 10.1177/1362361320936827. Epub 2020 Jul 7.
This study compared the sleep pattern between children with autism spectrum disorders and children with typical development using a matched case-control design (matched age, gender, and body mass index). Significant differences were found in night-time sleep duration (total amount of sleep at night), sleep efficiency (percentage of time spent asleep), sleep-onset latency (length of time that it takes to transit from awake to asleep), and wake after sleep onset (total amount of time spent awake after defined sleep onset). Findings showed that children with autism spectrum disorder had poorer sleep quality than children with typical development. Mechanisms underlying the differences should be further explored in order to develop an effective treatment intervention.
本研究采用匹配病例对照设计（匹配年龄、性别和体重指数）比较了自闭症谱系障碍儿童与典型发育儿童的睡眠模式。在夜间睡眠时间（夜间总睡眠时间）、睡眠效率（睡眠时间百分比）、入睡潜伏期（从清醒到入睡的时间长度）和睡眠后觉醒（定义的睡眠起始后总觉醒时间）方面发现了显著差异。研究结果表明，自闭症谱系障碍儿童的睡眠质量较典型发育儿童差。为了制定有效的治疗干预措施，应进一步探讨导致这些差异的机制。
