Sleep-Wake Disturbances After Acquired Brain Injury in Children Surviving Critical Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sleep-wake disturbances are underevaluated among children with acquired brain injury surviving critical care. We aimed to quantify severity, phenotypes, and risk factors for sleep-wake disturbances.

Methods

We performed a prospective cohort study of 78 children aged ≥3 years with acquired brain injury within three months of critical care hospitalization. Diagnoses included traumatic brain injury (n = 40), stroke (n = 11), infectious or inflammatory disease (n = 10), hypoxic-ischemic injury (n = 9), and other (n = 8). Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children standardized T scores measured sleep-wake disturbances. Overall sleep-wake disturbances were dichotomized as any total or subscale T score ≥60. Any T score ≥70 defined severe sleep-wake disturbances. Subscale T sc

SUBMITTER: Williams CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7042044 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature