Adopted youth and sleep difficulties

Radcliff, Zach; Baylor, Allison; Rybarczyk, Bruce

doi:10.2147/phmt.s119958

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“…Internationally adopted children could therefore be at risk. Although many adoptive parents report a sleep problem in their children, 2 – 5 these studies have not focused on sleep specifically or used validated sleep questionnaires. To the best of our knowledge, two studies in adopted children used validated sleep questionnaires.…”

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Sleep problems in internationally adopted children: a pilot study

Schenkels¹,

Steinfort²,

Wojciechowski³

et al. 2018

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Sleep problems in internationally adopted children: a pilot study

Schenkels¹,

Steinfort²,

Wojciechowski³

et al. 2018

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“…First, poverty in the family is an additional source of stress and is connected with limited access to sports in free time. Second, the authors of many studies have found that sharing a bed or bedroom with siblings or parents has a significant adverse effect on the duration and quality of sleep among young people [15]. On the other hand, a TV set, computer and audio-video equipment in a teenager’s room also constitutes a sleep disrupting factor [16].…”

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Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviours and Duration of Sleep as Factors Affecting the Well-Being of Young People against the Background of Environmental Moderators

Kleszczewska¹,

Małkowska‐Szkutnik

Siedlecka

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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Mental health problems during adolescence are becoming increasingly frequent. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the total impact of selected behavioural and environmental factors on the variability of mental well-being indexes of young people aged 15 to 17 years. The survey, conducted as part of the last round of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) 2017/18 study, covered 3693 secondary school students in Poland at the average age of 16.53 years (SD = 1.09). Dependent variables: depression (CES-DC), stress (Cohen scale), satisfaction with life (Cantril’s Ladder), and self-efficacy in social relations (Smith and Betz scale). Independent variables included: physical activity; sedentary behaviours; length of sleep; and perception of the environment in which the respondent was raised. The analyses were adjusted by gender, age, and occurrence of chronic disease. It was demonstrated that gender, duration of sleep, and perception of the surrounding environment proved to be significant predictors of all four mental health indicators. The protective influence of physical activity appeared to be a particular advantage in a less-supportive environment. The intervention programmes aimed at improving the mental well-being of young people should include promoting physical activity and sufficient sleep; furthermore, environmental moderators should be taken into consideration.

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“…In a recent study, almost a third of adolescents adopted in childhood had insomnia and this proportion was significantly larger than in their non-adopted controls (14). Pre-adoptive stress, lack of parental care, deprived living conditions in institutions, and major changes during the adoption transition have been suggested as risk factors for sleep disturbances in adopted children (6,(15)(16)(17).…”

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Changes in objectively measured sleep among internationally adopted children in 1-year follow-up during the first years in new families

Heikkilä

Lapinleimu²,

Virtanen³

et al. 2022

Front. Pediatr.

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BackgroundPsychosocial risks and environmental changes experienced by internationally adopted children may predict sleep problems, which are incidentally among the main concerns of adoptive parents. Several questionnaire studies have found sleep of internationally adopted children to be problematic, but none of those used an objective measure in a controlled study.ObjectiveTo determine whether the objectively recorded sleep of internationally adopted children is worse than their controls who are living with their biological parents.MethodsTo this case-control part of the Finnish Adoption Study, we recruited children who were adopted internationally to Finland between October 2012 and December 2016. Simultaneously, control children were recruited from 16 daycare centers. To assess sleep in children, actigraphy recordings were made twice, 1 year apart, between December 2013 and April 2018. In the adopted group, the first assessment took place 10 months after they had arrived in their families. The associations between adoption status and sleep parameters were analyzed using linear mixed modeling and adjusted for multiple potential confounders, including child age.ResultsSeventy-eight internationally adopted children (boys 64%) aged 1–7 years and 99 controls (boys 53%) aged 2–6 years attended the first sleep recording. The recordings showed that the internationally adopted children slept longer (B = 0.48, 95% CI 0.23–0.73, P < 0.001) than the controls. There were no significant differences in sleep fragmentation or sleep efficiency between the groups. During the 1-year follow-up, the sleep patterns of the adopted children approached those of the controls.ConclusionsThe internationally adopted children spent more time in bed and slept more than their control children in both recordings. However, their sleep patterns were not very different from those of their peers and the differences appeared to vanish during the first years in their new family.

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Adopted youth and sleep difficulties

Cited by 4 publications

References 96 publications

Sleep problems in internationally adopted children: a pilot study

Sleep problems in internationally adopted children: a pilot study

Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviours and Duration of Sleep as Factors Affecting the Well-Being of Young People against the Background of Environmental Moderators

Changes in objectively measured sleep among internationally adopted children in 1-year follow-up during the first years in new families

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