Sleep as a mediator in the context of emotional problems in adolescents with IBD: A pilot study

Background: Sleep has an impact on daily life. Particularly among adolescents with IBD, adequate sleep seems to be important, as the disease itself and associated symptoms can cause distress impair daytime functioning. However, often parental youth reports differ regarding perceived problems of adolescents. Besides problems, depression anxiety are prominent in young IBD patients. To date, interplay between sleep, anxiety/depression is not fully understood. Therefore, aim this study was (1) evaluate suffering from (2) compare adolescents’ quality impairments according self- reports, (3) investigate interaction symptomatology, emotional disturbances. Methods: 29 (age 10 - 22; M = 14.44 , SD 1.78 ) their parents took part study. Adolescents completed questionnaires concerning symptomatology. Results: Especially overtiredness, insomnia symptoms, nightmares play a role youths. Self-rated ratings were inconsistent, particularly for (Z -2.12; p .034). other especially nightmares, significantly related(r .426, .034), even though we found no mediation effect association anxiety. Discussion: The present revealed importance well-being IBD. Moreover, it became clear that youths sufficiently answered yet. Not only behavior but also should addressed when diagnosing or during treatment In addition, these results show need further investigation differences self-reports