Sleep Quality Among Children And Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
- Conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Interventions
- Other: questionnaire about sleep quality in diabetic children
- Registration Number
- NCT05686655
- Lead Sponsor
- Sohag University
- Brief Summary
Sleep is an important health behavior for children and adolescents due to the impact it has on both mental and physical development. Although sleep is considered a resting period, it is also a period when the brain work to encode and consolidate memories into more stable representations for long term recall . Unfortunately, pediatric sleep disorders affect 25 - 40% of youth and several studies showed that children with chronic illness experience more problems with initiating and maintaining sleep than their non- chronically ill children .
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) affects the quality of sleep in children and adolescents as well as their caregivers. Sleep disturbances in patients with T1DM may negatively impact their ability to manage their diabetes .
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 150
- Children and adolescents aged 6 to 15 years .
- diagnosed with T1DM for at least 6 months
- attending the pediatric diabetes outpatient clinic at Sohag University Hospital.
- Age and sex matched control group for acute non-serious illnesses
- Children and adolescents with associated neurological or psychiatric disorders .
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description diabetes children questionnaire about sleep quality in diabetic children -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method sleep problems as frequent awakening during the night in the past month sleep problems as frequent awakening during the night
duration of nighttime sleep in hours in night times and weekends in the past month duration of nighttime sleep in hours in night times and weekends
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Sohag University Hospital
🇪🇬Sohag, Egypt