TY - JOUR
T1 - Sleep problems among parents of children with autism spectrum disorders in oman
T2 - A case control study
AU - Al-Farsi, Omar A.
AU - Al-Farsi, Yahya M.
AU - Al-Sharbati, Marwan M.
AU - Al-Adawi, Samir
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by funds from Sultan Qaboos University, His Majesty Strategic Research Grant Fund, grant number SR/MED/FMCO/11/01. Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Authors’ contributions: OF formulated the study concept and collected data. He contributed to data analysis, literature review, and write-up of the manuscript. YF and MS conceptualized the methods and contributed in reviewing results and write-up of the manuscript. YF and OF conceptualized the regression modelling techniques, reviewed the results and contributed to the write-up. MW and SA revised the scientific background of the study and contributed to the literature review and write-up of manuscript, especially the Discussion. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - Objectives: Studies largely from Western countries have indicated a high rate of sleep problems among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study was conducted in Oman, a Middle Eastern Arab country, in order to compare indices of sleep behavior and sleep quality among parents of children with presently operationalized control intellectual disabled (ID) and typically developing children (TD). Design: Case control study Setting: The quality of sleep was quantified using Arabic version of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The highest performance in PSQI signifies poor quality of sleep. Subjects: Parents with ASD children (n = 220), ID (n = 109), and TD (n = 125) Main outcome measure: Overall, the performance of PSQI among parents with ASD are higher compared to control group (6.6, 6.0 vs. 5.5; p-value 0.001) indicating that parents with ASD endorsed more sleeping problems than parents with ID and TD children. Results: In terms of performance in subscale of PSQI, parents of children with ASD endorsed themselves poorly in indices of subjective sleep quality, sleep latency and duration, compared to controls. Risk of having poor sleep quality was significantly higher among parents of ASD and ID children compared to TD children (p-value <0.05). Conclusions: This study provides preliminary evidence of quality of sleep among parents caring for children with ASD, ID and TD. This study is in consonant with the trend from elsewhere, indicating that parents of children with ASD have poor quality of sleep and all the consequences this may entail.
AB - Objectives: Studies largely from Western countries have indicated a high rate of sleep problems among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study was conducted in Oman, a Middle Eastern Arab country, in order to compare indices of sleep behavior and sleep quality among parents of children with presently operationalized control intellectual disabled (ID) and typically developing children (TD). Design: Case control study Setting: The quality of sleep was quantified using Arabic version of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The highest performance in PSQI signifies poor quality of sleep. Subjects: Parents with ASD children (n = 220), ID (n = 109), and TD (n = 125) Main outcome measure: Overall, the performance of PSQI among parents with ASD are higher compared to control group (6.6, 6.0 vs. 5.5; p-value 0.001) indicating that parents with ASD endorsed more sleeping problems than parents with ID and TD children. Results: In terms of performance in subscale of PSQI, parents of children with ASD endorsed themselves poorly in indices of subjective sleep quality, sleep latency and duration, compared to controls. Risk of having poor sleep quality was significantly higher among parents of ASD and ID children compared to TD children (p-value <0.05). Conclusions: This study provides preliminary evidence of quality of sleep among parents caring for children with ASD, ID and TD. This study is in consonant with the trend from elsewhere, indicating that parents of children with ASD have poor quality of sleep and all the consequences this may entail.
KW - Autism
KW - Oman
KW - Parents
KW - Sleep problems
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089434791
SN - 0023-5776
VL - 52
SP - 36
EP - 42
JO - Kuwait Medical Journal
JF - Kuwait Medical Journal
IS - 1
ER -