Citation

Collado-Corona MA, Loredo-Abdalá A, Serrano-Morales JL, Shkurovich-Bialik P, Shkurovich-Zaslavsky M, Arch-Tirado E. Cir. Cir. 2005; 73(4): 297-301.

Vernacular Title

Alteraciones del sueno en ninos victimas de abuso fisico o sexual.

Affiliation

The American British Cowdray Hospital Medical Center, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, SSA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Academia Mexicana de Cirugia)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16283961

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The abused child syndrome is related to a variety of emotional disorders, among which are the "post-traumatic stress syndrome" and the phenomena "re-experience," which is related to disturbances of the normal sleep-wake cycle. OBJECTIVE: To determine the polysomnographic characteristics of the abused child syndrome and compare them with paired healthy children. MATERIAL AND METHODS: After two-night habituation, all-night video-digital polygraphic recordings following recommendations of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology were performed in 15 abused child syndrome and 15 healthy controls. RESULTS: In the abused child syndrome patients, the main sleep changes were decreased sleep efficiency, decreased sleep onset sleep latency, increased wakefulness, decreased REM sleep and total sleep time. CONCLUSIONS: The abused child syndrome have abnormal sleep patterns, independent of the type of abuse, age or sex. Sleep alterations are a new characteristic of the abused child syndrome, not previously described.

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