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- Title
Disturbed sleep in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD) is not a question of psychiatric comorbidity or ADHD presentation.
- Authors
Virring, Anne; Lambek, Rikke; Thomsen, Per H.; Møller, Lene R.; Jennum, Poul J.
- Abstract
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD) is a heterogeneous psychiatric disorder with three different presentations and high levels of psychiatric comorbidity. Serious sleep complaints are also common, but the role of the presentations and comorbidity in sleep is under-investigated in ADHD. Consequently, the goal of the study was to investigate sleep problems in medicine-naive school-aged children (mean age = 9.6 years) with ADHD compared to controls using objective methods and to examine the role of comorbidity and presentations. Ambulatory polysomnography results suggested that children with ADHD ( n = 76) had significantly more sleep disturbances than controls ( n = 25), including a larger percentage of rapid eye movement ( REM) sleep and more sleep cycles, as well as lower mean sleep efficiency, mean non- REM ( NREM) sleep stage 1 and mean NREM sleep stage 3. No significant between-group differences were found on the multiple sleep latency test. Stratifying for comorbidity in the ADHD group did not reveal major differences between groups, but mean sleep latency was significantly longer in children with ADHD and no comorbidity compared to controls (36.1 min; SD = 30.1 versus 22.6 min; SD = 15.2). No differences were found between ADHD presentations. Our results support the presence of night-time sleep disturbances in children with ADHD. Poor sleep does not appear to be attributable to comorbidity alone, nor do sleep disturbances differ within ADHD presentations.
- Subjects
SLEEP disorders; SLEEP apnea syndromes; SLEEP stages; ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; NON-REM sleep
- Publication
Journal of Sleep Research, 2016, Vol 25, Issue 3, p333
- ISSN
0962-1105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jsr.12377