TY  - JOUR
A1  - Buhr, Lilly
A1  - Moschko, Tomasz
A1  - Eppinger Ruiz de Zarate, Anne
A1  - Schwarz, Ulrike
A1  - Kühnhausen, Jan
A1  - Gawrilow, Caterina
T1  - The association of self-reported ADHD symptoms and sleep in daily life of a general population sample of school children: an inter- and intraindividual perspective
T2  - Brain sciences
N2  - Sleep and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have repeatedly been found to be associated with each other. However, the ecological validity of daily life studies to examine the effect of sleep on ADHD symptoms is rarely made use of. In an ambulatory assessment study with measurement burst design, consisting of three bursts (each 6 months apart) of 18 days each, 70 German schoolchildren aged 10–12 years reported on their sleep quality each morning and on their subjective ADHD symptom levels as well as their sleepiness three times a day. It was hypothesized that nightly sleep quality is negatively associated with ADHD symptoms on the inter- as well as the intraindividual level. Thus, we expected children who sleep better to report higher attention and self-regulation. Additionally, sleepiness during the day was hypothesized to be positively associated with ADHD symptoms on both levels, meaning that when children are sleepier, they experience more ADHD symptoms. No association of sleep quality and ADHD symptoms between or within participants was found in multilevel analyses; also, no connection was found between ADHD symptoms and daytime sleepiness on the interindividual level. Unexpectedly, a negative association was found on the intraindividual level for ADHD symptoms and daytime sleepiness, indicating that in moments when children are sleepier during the day, they experience less ADHD symptoms. Explorative analyses showed differential links of nightly sleep quality and daytime sleepiness, with the core symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity, respectively. Therefore, future analyses should take the factor structure of ADHD symptoms into account.
KW  - attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
KW  - sleep
KW  - ambulatory assessment
KW  - multilevel analysis
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/83139
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-831398
SN  - 2076-3425
VL  - 12
IS  - 4, 440
PB  - MDPI AG
CY  - Basel
ER  -