title: In a randomized case-control trial with 10-years olds suffering from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) sleep and psychological functioning improved during a 12-week sleep-training program.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We tested the hypothesis that sleep training would improve emotional, social and behavioural functioning in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to children with ADHD without such intervention and to healthy controls.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty children with ADHD were randomly assigned to intervention and control conditions. Parents of 20 children with ADHD were instructed and thoroughly supervised in improving their children's sleep schedules and sleep behaviour. Parents of the other 20 children with ADHD and parents of 20 healthy children received general information about sleep hygiene. At baseline and 12 weeks later, parents and children completed questionnaires related to children's sleep and psychological functioning.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Relative to the control groups, children in the intervention group improved sleep quantitatively and qualitatively (F values < 3.33, P values < 0.05). The intervention group children reported improvements in mood, emotions, and relationships (F values < 2.99, P values < 0.05). Parents reported that their children improved in physical and psychological wellbeing, mood, emotions, relationships, and social acceptance (F values < 3.02, P values < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Training and monitoring parents of children with ADHD in regulating and supervising children's sleep schedules leads to positive changes in the emotions, behaviour and social lives of these children.
authors: Psychiatry & Psychology Research Center (PPRC), Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran.
authors: Zahra
authors: Z
authors: Keshavarzi
authors: Hafez
authors: H
authors: Bajoghli
authors: Mohammad Reza
authors: MR
authors: Mohamadi
authors: Maryam
authors: M
authors: Salmanian
authors: Roumen
authors: R
authors: Kirov
authors: Markus
authors: M
authors: Gerber
authors: Edith
authors: E
authors: Holsboer-Trachsler
authors: Serge
authors: S
authors: Brand
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D012890:Sleep; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: ADHD; behaviour; emotions; intervention; sleep