Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Roma, Italy.
Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy.
Psychol Health. 2022 May;37(5):563-579. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2021.1892110. Epub 2021 Mar 7.
High incidence of sleep problems in children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been described. Mindfulness meditation has emerged as a novel approach to sleep disturbances and insomnia remediation. This preliminary study tested the efficacy of Mindfulness-Oriented Meditation (MOM) training on sleep quality and behavioral problems in children with ADHD.
Twenty-five children with ADHD aged 7-11 years underwent two programs three times per week for eight-weeks: the MOM training (15 children) and an Active Control Condition (10 children).
Objective and subjective measures of sleep quality and behavioral measures were collected before and after the programs.
Positive effects on sleep and behavioral measures were found only in the MOM group.
Although they are preliminary, our results indicate that MOM training is a promising tool for ameliorating sleep quality and behavioral manifestations in ADHD.
已有研究表明，注意缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）儿童和青少年普遍存在睡眠问题。正念冥想已成为一种治疗睡眠障碍和失眠的新方法。本初步研究旨在测试正念冥想（MOM）训练对 ADHD 儿童睡眠质量和行为问题的疗效。
25 名 7-11 岁的 ADHD 儿童每周进行三次、为期八周的两种方案治疗：MOM 训练（15 名儿童）和主动对照条件（10 名儿童）。
在方案前后分别采集客观和主观睡眠质量及行为测量指标。
仅在 MOM 组中发现了对睡眠和行为测量指标的积极影响。
尽管这些结果初步，但提示 MOM 训练是改善 ADHD 儿童睡眠质量和行为表现的有前途的工具。
