Findings from type 2 diabetes research indicate that sleep is both a
predictor of onset and a correlate of disease progression. However, the role
sleep plays in glucose regulation and daytime functioning in youth with type 1
diabetes mellitus (T1DM) has not been systematically investigated. Nonetheless,
preliminary findings have supported that various sleep parameters are strongly
correlated to health-related and neurobehavioral outcomes in youth with T1DM.
This suggests that improving sleep might reduce morbidity. A critical step in
developing evidence-based guidelines regarding sleep in diabetes management is
to first determine that sleep modification in natural settings is possible
(i.e., instructing youth to have a healthy sleep opportunity leads to more total
sleep time) and that an increased sleep duration impacts disease and
psychosocial outcomes in these youth. This article describes the background,
design, and feasibility of an ongoing randomized clinical trial that aims to
examine if increasing sleep relative to youth’s own sleep routines
affects glucose control and daytime functioning.
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