Characterizing psychiatric symptoms and neurocognitive functioning among substance-naive early adolescents: Associations with sleep problems.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Evidence consistently links psychiatric symptoms, reduced neurocognitive functioning (NCF) and sleep problems to the initiation of a wide range of risk behaviours. Less is known, however, about the associations between sleep problems with psychiatric symptoms and NCF among early adolescents yet to engage in substance use.

Methods

The present study examined baseline data from an ongoing prospective study of 529 youth aged 10-12 years who completed a battery of instruments measuring symptom counts for four psychiatric disorders, performance on six tests of NCF and five types of sleep behaviour on week days. We used latent class analysis to classify the 473 substance-naïve youth into subtypes characterized by probabilistic patterns of psychiatric symptoms and poorer NCF.

SUBMITTER: Peiper NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10576860 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature