Infant sleep predicts trajectories of social attention and later autism traits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with neurodevelopmental disorders including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience sleep disturbances, but little is known about when these sleep differences emerge and how they relate to later development.

Methods

We used a prospective longitudinal design in infants with a family history of ASD and/or ADHD to examine infant sleep and its relation to trajectories of attention and later neurodevelopmental disorders. We formed factors of Day and Night Sleep from parent-reported measures (including day/night sleep duration, number of naps in the day, frequency of night awakenings and sleep onset problems). We examined sleep in 164 infants at 5-, 10- and 14-months with/without a first-degree relativ

SUBMITTER: Begum-Ali J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952761 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature