Sarah M Honaker, Caroline Hoyniak, Maureen E McQuillan, John Bates
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Abstract
Objectives: The study objective was to examine the impact of a brief behavioral sleep intervention (The Sleep Train Program) on sleep and behavior in children with externalizing behavior problems.
Method: Children (3-8 years) presenting to a behavioral health clinic for externalizing problems were randomized to receive a behavioral sleep intervention or a mealtime intervention (active control). Families then completed parent management training followed by the cross-over intervention. Outcomes included parent-reported child sleep and behavior and actigraphic sleep, and were examined in the full sample and in a subsample of children with comorbid sleep difficulties.
Results: In a subsample of children with both externalizing and sleep difficulties, children randomized to behavioral sleep intervention showed reduced externalizing problems (t = -2.75, p < .05), reduced night wakings (t = -2.21, p < .05), and improved parent-child interactions (t = 2.99, p = .01) and child behavior (t = -2.42, p < .05) at bedtime, compared to active control. In the full sample, in which some children did not present with sleep difficulties, behavioral sleep intervention, compared to active control, did not yield significant improvements in most sleep and behavior outcomes. Comparing sleep and behavior before and after behavioral sleep intervention across groups, children had fewer externalizing behaviors (t = 4.98, p < .001), improved sleep habits (t = -3.24, p < .05) and improved parent-child bedtime interaction (t = -3.24, p < .01), but no changes in sleep patterns.
Conclusion: A brief behavioral sleep intervention was efficacious in improving both sleep and behavior outcomes for children with comorbid sleep and externalizing difficulties, but not for children with only externalizing difficulties.
期刊介绍：
Behavioral Sleep Medicine addresses behavioral dimensions of normal and abnormal sleep mechanisms and the prevention, assessment, and treatment of sleep disorders and associated behavioral and emotional problems. Standards for interventions acceptable to this journal are guided by established principles of behavior change. Intending to serve as the intellectual home for the application of behavioral/cognitive science to the study of normal and disordered sleep, the journal paints a broad stroke across the behavioral sleep medicine landscape. Its content includes scholarly investigation of such areas as normal sleep experience, insomnia, the relation of daytime functioning to sleep, parasomnias, circadian rhythm disorders, treatment adherence, pediatrics, and geriatrics. Multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. The journal’ domain encompasses human basic, applied, and clinical outcome research. Behavioral Sleep Medicine also embraces methodological diversity, spanning innovative case studies, quasi-experimentation, randomized trials, epidemiology, and critical reviews.
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