Childhood maltreatment and adulthood poor sleep quality: a longitudinal study

Amanuel A Abajobir; Steve Kisely; Gail Williams; Lane Strathearn; Jake M Najman

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Childhood maltreatment and adulthood poor sleep quality: a longitudinal study

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Childhood maltreatment and adulthood poor sleep quality: a longitudinal study

Amanuel A Abajobir, Steve Kisely, Gail Williams, Lane Strathearn and Jake M Najman

Internal medicine journal, Vol.47(8), pp.879-888

08/2017

DOI: 10.1111/imj.13459

PMID: 28422454

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Abstract

Available evidence from cross-sectional studies suggests that childhood maltreatment may be associated with a range of sleep disorders. However, these studies have not controlled for potential individual-, familial- and environmental-level confounders. To determine the association between childhood maltreatment and lower sleep quality after adjusting for potential confounders. Data for the present study were obtained from a pre-birth cohort study of 3778 young adults (52.6% female) of the Mater Hospital-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy follow up at a mean age of 20.6 years. The Mater Hospital-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy is a prospective Australian pre-birth cohort study of mothers consecutively recruited during their first obstetric clinic visit at Brisbane's Mater Hospital in 1981-1983. Participants completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index at the 21-year follow up. We linked this dataset to agency-recorded substantiated cases of childhood maltreatment. A series of separate logistic regression models was used to test whether childhood maltreatment predicted lower sleep quality after adjustment for selected confounders. Substantiated physical abuse significantly predicted lower sleep quality in males. Single and multiple forms of childhood maltreatment, including age of maltreatment and number of substantiations, did not predict lower sleep quality in either gender in both crude and adjusted models. Not being married, living in a residential problem area, cigarette smoking and internalising were significantly associated with lower sleep quality in a fully adjusted model for the male-female combined sample. Childhood maltreatment does not appear to predict young adult poor sleep quality, with the exception of physical abuse for males. While childhood maltreatment has been found to predict a range of mental health problems, childhood maltreatment does not appear to predict sleep problems occurring in young adults. Poor sleep quality was accounted for by concurrent social disadvantage, cigarette smoking and internalising.

Prospective Studies

Age Factors

Follow-Up Studies

Humans

Child, Preschool

Child Abuse - classification

Infant

Male

Socioeconomic Factors

Young Adult

Sleep Wake Disorders - epidemiology

Adult

Female

Child

Sleep Wake Disorders - etiology

Infant, Newborn

Child Abuse - statistics & numerical data

Cigarette Smoking - adverse effects

Self Report

Logistic Models

Sleep Wake Disorders - psychology

Pregnancy

Child Abuse - psychology

Adolescent

Sex Factors

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Title: Subtitle: Childhood maltreatment and adulthood poor sleep quality: a longitudinal study
Creators: Amanuel A Abajobir - Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Steve Kisely - Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Gail Williams - Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lane Strathearn - Center for Disabilities and Development, University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Jake M Najman - Queensland Alcohol and Drug Research and Education Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Internal medicine journal, Vol.47(8), pp.879-888
DOI: 10.1111/imj.13459
PMID: 28422454
NLM abbreviation: Intern Med J
ISSN: 1444-0903
eISSN: 1445-5994
Publisher: Australia
Grant note: DOI: 10.13039/501100000925, name: National Health and Medical Research Council, award: #1009460
Language: English
Date published: 08/2017
Academic Unit: Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Record Identifier: 9984040400202771

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