ABSTRACT
O sono é fundamental no desenvolvimento físico e cognitivo, vários estudos na literatura sugerem haver associação entre distúrbio do sono (DS) e disfunões cognitivas (DC) em crianças. Pouco se sabe, no entanto, sobre DS e cognição na faixa etária de 7 a 10 anos, motivo porque empreendemos este estudo. MÉTODO: Aplicamos um questionário de DS em 1180 crianças: 547 com DS e 633 sem DS (GC), avaliandose cognição pelo Teste Gestáltico de Bender (TB). RESULTADOS: Observamos proporção semelhante de DC nas crianças com DS (39%) e nas do GC (40%). As crianças de 8 anos do DS apresentaram menor prevalência de DC do que as do GC (DS=6%, n=6; GC=13%, n=16; p=0,04). CONCLUSÃO: A proporção de crianças com DC foi igual nos grupos estudo e controle quando consideramos a amostra total (crianças de 7 a 10 anos). Contrariando nossas expectativas, o grupo DS de 8 anos apresentou menos DC que o grupo controle.
Subject(s)
Child , Female , Humans , Male , Cognition Disorders/etiology , Sleep Wake Disorders/complications , Age Distribution , Bender-Gestalt Test , Brazil/epidemiology , Case-Control Studies , Chi-Square Distribution , Cognition Disorders/epidemiology , Prevalence , Sex Distribution , Surveys and Questionnaires , Sleep Wake Disorders/epidemiologyABSTRACT
The personality is the way people express themselves inside the environment they live. Sleep, quality or quantity, is a way of this physical and psychological expression of well being. Psychological factors, associated with psychophysiological insomnia (PPI) suggest an exaggerated perception of the difficulties to fall asleep. Worries, anxiety and the fear of not sleeping produce a bad sleep quality or sleep misperception. This study aims to identify personality features associated with PPI throughout Rorschach test (RT). METHOD: We studied 32 patients with PPI (22 women), between 29 and 75 years old. We excluded patients with other sleeping or psychiatric disorders. We analysed the data from PPI patients submitted to the RT and we compared our results with the standard data. RESULTS: We noticed a significant increase in global answers and a significant decrease in detailed answers; a trend of a low number of answers; great number of shape and animal answers, especially for women. CONCLUSION: The features of the PPI patient's personality were daily problems insecure and the incapability to avoid or remove them from their thought, making bedtime a time for worries to appear again and motivate insomnia