TY - JOUR
T1 - Objective and subjective assessment of sleep in adolescents with chronic pain compared to healthy adolescents
AU - Palermo, Tonya M.
AU - Toliver-Sokol, Marisol
AU - Fonareva, Irina
AU - Koh, Jeffrey L.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to compare sleep of adolescents with chronic pain and healthy adolescents using both subjective and objective sleep assessments, and to identify correlates of poor sleep. METHODS: Forty adolescents (n=20 with chronic pain and n=20 healthy adolescents), aged 12 to 17 years (72.5% female) participated. Adolescents completed self-report measures of pain, sleep quality and hygiene, presleep arousal/worry, and depressive symptoms. Sleep patterns were assessed over 7 consecutive days using an actigraph, a motion-monitoring device detecting sleep-wake patterns by measuring activity levels. Total sleep time, sleep efficiency, wake time, and wake bouts were derived from the actigraph and aggregated for analysis. RESULTS: Compared with healthy peers, adolescents with chronic pain demonstrated similar total sleep time as healthy adolescents, but significantly poorer sleep. In particular, adolescents with chronic pain subjectively reported poorer sleep quality and increased insomnia symptoms, and demonstrated lower actigraphic sleep efficiency and more wake bouts compared with their healthy peers. Depressive symptoms and worry at bedtime were significant predictors of subjectively reported sleep quality but not of actigraphic sleep. DISCUSSION: Adolescents with chronic pain evidenced poorer sleep quality, increased insomnia symptoms, and less efficient sleep with more wake bouts in comparison with healthy adolescents, findings that require replication in a larger sample. Assessment and management of sleep disturbances is an important aspect of care for children and adolescents with chronic pain.
AB - OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to compare sleep of adolescents with chronic pain and healthy adolescents using both subjective and objective sleep assessments, and to identify correlates of poor sleep. METHODS: Forty adolescents (n=20 with chronic pain and n=20 healthy adolescents), aged 12 to 17 years (72.5% female) participated. Adolescents completed self-report measures of pain, sleep quality and hygiene, presleep arousal/worry, and depressive symptoms. Sleep patterns were assessed over 7 consecutive days using an actigraph, a motion-monitoring device detecting sleep-wake patterns by measuring activity levels. Total sleep time, sleep efficiency, wake time, and wake bouts were derived from the actigraph and aggregated for analysis. RESULTS: Compared with healthy peers, adolescents with chronic pain demonstrated similar total sleep time as healthy adolescents, but significantly poorer sleep. In particular, adolescents with chronic pain subjectively reported poorer sleep quality and increased insomnia symptoms, and demonstrated lower actigraphic sleep efficiency and more wake bouts compared with their healthy peers. Depressive symptoms and worry at bedtime were significant predictors of subjectively reported sleep quality but not of actigraphic sleep. DISCUSSION: Adolescents with chronic pain evidenced poorer sleep quality, increased insomnia symptoms, and less efficient sleep with more wake bouts in comparison with healthy adolescents, findings that require replication in a larger sample. Assessment and management of sleep disturbances is an important aspect of care for children and adolescents with chronic pain.
KW - Actigraphy
KW - Adolescent
KW - Chronic pain
KW - Insomnia
KW - Sleep
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U2 - 10.1097/AJP.0b013e318156ca63
DO - 10.1097/AJP.0b013e318156ca63
M3 - Article
C2 - 18075410
AN - SCOPUS:39049167759
SN - 0749-8047
VL - 23
SP - 812
EP - 820
JO - Clinical Journal of Pain
JF - Clinical Journal of Pain
IS - 9
ER -