Baseline Sleep Disturbances Modify Outcome Trajectories in Adolescents With Chronic Pain Receiving Internet-Delivered Psychological Treatment.

ABSTRACT: Over 50% of adolescents with chronic pain report comorbid sleep disturbances (eg, difficulties with falling asleep), which is associated with increased pain-related disability and poorer quality of life. However, limited longitudinal data are available to understand how sleep disturbance may impact response to psychological treatment. Our primary hypothesis was that baseline sleep disturbances would significantly modify how adolescents responded to an internet-delivered psychological intervention for chronic pain in terms of outcome trajectories. The sample included 85 adolescents, 12 to 17 years, with chronic pain recruited from a multidisciplinary pain clinic and headache clinic who received access to an internet-delivered psychological intervention for chronic pain. Baseline sleep asses

SUBMITTER: Palermo TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9271547 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature