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Sleep patterns of 7‐week‐old infants at familial risk for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Author(s) -
Landau Rivka,
Sadeh Avi,
Vassoly Paz,
Berger Andrea,
AtzabaPoria Naama,
Auerbach Judith G.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/imhj.20275
Subject(s) - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , sleep (system call) , psychology , attention deficit , attention deficit disorder , sleep disorder , pediatrics , medicine , psychiatry , audiology , insomnia , computer science , operating system
Abstract Sleep patterns of 26 seven‐week‐old boys at familial risk for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and 18 control infants were compared by objective (actigraph) and subjective (maternal sleep diary) measures, over five consecutive 24‐hr periods. Actigraph findings indicated that the groups differed on stability ( SD ) of quiet sleep only during the day. Reports in maternal sleep diaries indicated that they also differed on stability of waking and stability of sleep duration, again only during the day. No group differences were found in terms of average scores, whether calculated for the entire 24‐hr periods, for nights, or for days. Mothers in the risk group reported that fathers were less involved in infant care than did those in the control group. These findings suggest that as early as 7 weeks of age, infants at risk for ADHD differ from controls only on stability of their sleep patterns during the day, when environmental regulatory factors are more intensive.