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The comparison of sleep disorders between type-1 diabetic and non-diabetic children and adolescents

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Abstract

Background

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is one of the most encountered chronic diseases in children and adolescents. Sleep as an essential part of life cycles follows a complicated biological pattern.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate and compare the sleep disorders between T1DM and non-diabetic children and adolescents.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted in a pediatric endocrinology clinic in Qazvin City during 2018–2019. The participated samples in T1DM and non-diabetic groups were 47 and 44 samples, respectively. The Children Sleep Health Questionnaire (CSHQ) was completed by the parents. Data were analyzed using SPSS software package version 22.

Results

The findings showed that the subscales of CSHQ including bedtime resistance, sleep onset delay, sleep duration, sleep anxiety, night waking, parasomnia, and total sleep disorder score of the diabetic patients were significantly higher than that of the control group (p < 0.05). The total score of CSHQ in the T1DM children group was higher than that the non-diabetic group, and this observed difference between scores was statistically significant (49.80 vs. 43.77, p < 0.05). The odds of the sleep complications in diabetic group (T1DM) are higher more than three times of the non-diabetic group controlling the confounding effects of the factors including age, sex, and BMI (OR = 3.16, 95% CI: 1.05–9.52).

Conclusion

According to the findings of our study, impaired sleep conditions in the T1DM children group were approximately three times the observed ones in the non-diabetic children group. According to our findings, routine evaluation of sleep disorders in diabetic children and adolescents is recommended.

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The authors thank the staff of the Children Growth Research Center at Qazvin Children Hospital, affiliated to the Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, for their help in preparing this paper.

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  1. Children Growth Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

    Fatemeh Saffari & Alireza Razzaghi

  2. Surgery Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

    Ali Homaei

  3. Clinical Research Development Unit, Qods Hospital, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

    Samira Dodangeh

  4. Student Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Research Development Unit, Qods Hospital, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

    Orayneb Batebi

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Saffari, F., Homaei, A., Dodangeh, S. et al. The comparison of sleep disorders between type-1 diabetic and non-diabetic children and adolescents. Int J Diabetes Dev Ctries (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13410-024-01344-2

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