PMID:
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2020 May 5. Epub 2020 May 5. PMID: 32372272
Abstract Title:
Physical activity, sleep and neuropsychiatric symptom severity in children with tourette syndrome.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine associations between physical activity, sleep and symptom severity in children with tic disorders. Children with tic disorders wore the GeneActiv device, a wrist-worn accelerometer that measures physical activity intensity and sleep/wake parameters continuously for seven days, and completed questionnaires on sleep quality, exercise and severity of tics, ADHD, obsessive-compulsive behaviours, anxiety and depression. 110 children participated in the study. Children with more severe tics had significantly more frequent comorbid diagnoses, greater impairment in subjective sleep measures, greater sedentary activity time and less light, moderate and vigorous activity time (all p
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