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A factor analysis of sleep problems and their psychological associations in children with Down's Syndrome
- Author:
- STORES Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 11(4), 1998, pp.345-354.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a study which aimed to identify statistically derived sleep disturbance factors in children with Down's syndrome and to explore the possibility that these factors have different psychological associations when compared to each other. Principal components analysis was performed on the. Three significant sleep disturbance factors were obtained. Children showing any one of these types of sleep problems had significantly higher daytime behaviour problem and maternal stress scores than children showing none. Children disturbances through the night had higher daytime behaviour score than all the other groups on virtually all the daytime scales. The findings of the study are discussed along with further research possibilities.
Evaluation of brief group-administered instruction for parents to prevent or minimize sleep problems in young children with Down Syndrome
- Authors:
- STORES Gregory, STORES Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), June 2004, pp.61-70.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The study concerns the unknown value of group instruction for mothers of young children with Down syndrome (DS) in preventing or minimizing sleep problems. Children with DS were randomly allocated to an Instruction group (given basic information about children's sleep) and a Control group for later comparison including objective sleep measures (actometry). As a secondary exercise, parental reports of sleep problems and objective sleep measures were compared in children with DS and a small sample of unimpaired children (U group) of comparable age and sex distribution. Instruction (shown to have improved mothers' knowledge) was associated with improvement in behavioural sleep problem ratings at 6-month follow up with no change in sleep-related breathing problem ratings or actometry findings. Sleep-related breathing problem symptoms and actometry abnormalities were significantly more common in the DS group than in the U group at baseline, with no obvious differences for behavioural sleep problems. Group instruction offers some benefit regarding behavioural sleep problems but not for sleep-related breathing problems to which more attention should be paid in children with DS, with a view to precise diagnosis and treatment.