Last night's sleep in relation to academic achievement and neurocognitive testing performance in adolescents with and without ADHD.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives/background

Objectives were to (1) examine previous night's sleep in relation to next day performance on standardized academic achievement and neurocognitive assessments in adolescents, and (2) explore whether previous night's sleep is differentially associated with testing performance for adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Participants/methods

Participants were 300 adolescents (ages 12-14 years; 55% male). Approximately half (53.6%) were diagnosed with ADHD. Adolescents provided ratings of their previous night's sleep quality, sleep duration, and number of night wakings and were administered standardized tests of processing speed and working memory, as well as word reading, numerical operations, and math fluency academic

SUBMITTER: Cusick CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6246815 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature