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ERIC Number: EJ1334477
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Feb
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1944-7515
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Randomized Behavioral Sleep Clinical Trial to Improve Outcomes in Children with Down Syndrome
Esbensen, Anna J.; Hoffman, Emily K.; Beebe, Dean W.; Byars, Kelly; Carle, Adam C.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Johnson, Cynthia
American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, v127 n2 p149-164 Feb 2022
Parents of 30 school-age children with Down syndrome participated in a small-scale randomized clinical trial of a behavioral sleep treatment designed specifically for children with Down syndrome. The aim was to improve child sleep, child daytime behavior problems, caregiver sleep, and caregiver stress. The intervention spanned 5-8 weeks, and assessments occurred pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, and three months post-treatment using a double-blinded design. Both the active treatment and a treatment-as-usual attention-controlled comparison group showed improvements in actigraphy and parent-report measures of child sleep, parent-reported child internalizing behaviors, and actigraphy measures of parent-sleep. The behavioral sleep treatment did not yield significantly different outcomes than a treatment-as-usual approach supplemented with non-sleep-specific behavioral or education sessions. Possible interpretations of study findings are discussed.
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. P.O. Box 1897, Lawrence, KS 66044-1897. Tel: 785-843-1235; Fax: 785-843-1274; e-mail: AJMR@allenpress.com; Web site: https://meridian.allenpress.com/aaidd
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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