Sleep medicine
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The sleep disturbance scale for children (SDSC) has been translated and adapted into several languages and its psychometric properties are good. Notably, a French version has been validated for 4- to 16-year olds. The objective of the current study was therefore to adapt and validate the SDSC for French young children (aged 6 months to 4 years).
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Sleep is an evolutionarily conserved process and is important for rest and recovery of various biological functions. Sleep and alertness alterations, function as contributing/modulatory factors in initiating and maintaining drug and alcohol abuse and as factors that increase the risk for relapse. ⋯ Sleep disturbances are seen even among patients on opioid substitution therapy (OST). The aim of this review is to present an overview of sleep problems in opioid dependent patients and to delineate factors associated with sleep disturbance.