Sleepless nights, sour moods: daily sleep-irritability links in a pediatric clinical sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sleep, or a lack thereof, is strongly related to mood dysregulation. Although considerable research uses symptom scales to examine this relation, few studies use longitudinal, real-time methods focused on pediatric irritability. This study leveraged an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) protocol, assessing bidirectional associations between momentary irritability symptoms and daily sleep duration in a transdiagnostic pediatric sample enriched for irritability.

Methods

A total of N = 125 youth (M_age = 12.58 years, SD = 2.56 years; 74% male; 68.8% White) completed digital, in vivo surveys three times a day for 7 days. For a subset of youth, their parents also completed the EMA protocol. Trait irritability was measured using youth-, parent-, and clinici

SUBMITTER: Meigs JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11322421 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature