Open AccessShort Term Outcome in Sleep Disturbance Intervention in Children with ASD in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Shaoli Sarker
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
annals of international medical and dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2395-2822
pISSN - 2395-2814
DOI - 10.53339/aimdr.2022.8.1.41
Subject(s) - medicine , sleep (system call) , intervention (counseling) , tertiary care , sleep disorder , sleepwalking , psychological intervention , pediatrics , psychiatry , insomnia , emergency medicine , computer science , operating system
Aim: The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between sleep patterns and behavioral difficulties in children with ASD using sleep disturbance treatments. Methods: We selected a total 41 children with sleep disorders as study population. The sleep services (behavioral sleep management techniques) were given by the child development center team of Dhaka Shishu Hospital comprising of physician , developmental therapist and psychologist. Children were split into eight groups and two gender divisions based on their age, and they were then studied over a period of 6 months . Sleep disorders were investigated both before and after intervention. Results: The results revealed that the children’s sleep dysfunction improved from before, with the lowest improvement percentage decreasing from 62.9 percent to 51.8 percent and the greatest improvement percentage increasing from 100 percent to 59.2 percent, whereas a sleep problem showed no change at all (sleepwalking). Conclusion: The study has tried and succeeded to an extent to intervene in the sleep dysfunction process of children with ASD in a tertiary care hospital. However, there is still much to learn about the clinical efficacy of these types of behavioral interventions in children with ASD who have sleep disruption.