Sleep mediates the link between resiliency and behavioural problems in children at high and low risk for alcoholism.

ABSTRACT: Children of alcoholic parents are at greater risk for developing substance use problems. Having a parent with any mental illness increases the risk for sleep disorders in children. Using actigraphy, this study characterized sleep in children of alcoholics and community controls over a period of 1 week. This study further examined whether sleep characteristics of the children mediated the relationship between self-regulation indices (i.e. undercontrol and resiliency) and outcome measures of function (e.g. problem behaviours and perceived conflict at home). Eighty-two children (53 boys, 29 girls, 7.2-13.0 years old) were recruited from the ongoing Michigan Longitudinal Study. Seventeen participants had no parental history of alcohol abuse or dependence family history negative (FH-), 43 had a

SUBMITTER: Hairston IS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4887390 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature