Prevalence of sleep disorders in children of a public hospital in São Paulo

• Autor(a) principal: Potasz, Clarisse [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Juliano, Maria Ligia [UNIFESP], Varela, Maria José [UNIFESP], Ferraz, Patrícia Gouveia [UNIFESP], Carvalho, Luciane Bizari Coin de [UNIFESP], Prado, Lucila Bizari Fernandes do [UNIFESP], Prado, Gilmar Fernandes do [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0004-282X2010000200016; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/5693
• topic: Children; sleep disorders; Crianças; distúrbios do sono

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of sleep disorders in a sample of children from a public hospital in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. METHOD: 330 children, who came to the clinical laboratory, were consecutively investigated for sleep disorders, using the sleep disturbance scale for children. Gender, age, and social/economical classification were considered. RESULTS: Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) showed higher prevalence in our sample (55%) than in data found in the literature. Prevalence of sleep hyperhydrosis (SHY) was 27% considering the whole sample. Boys and children in age range 7.1 to 11 years old showed higher prevalence for SDB as well as children belonging to lower social/economic classifications who were also more prevalent for disorders in the transition of sleep-wakefulness. CONCLUSION: Sleep disorders were highly prevailing in our study, mostly SDB and SHY which were exceedingly more prevalent in boys in relation to international literature.