Practice Tools for Screening and Monitoring Insomnia in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Tobias Banaschewski, Oliviero Bruni, Joaquin Fuentes, Catherine Mary Hill, Allan Hvolby, Maj-Britt Posserud, Carmen Schroder
PMID 34463899WHAT IT FOUND
This paper proposes two unvalidated tools for screening and monitoring insomnia in children with autism.
Because the authors state these tools have not yet been tested or validated, there are no findings here to change clinical practice.
What this paper is
This is a consensus paper from an expert panel proposing two new clinical tools for screening and monitoring insomnia in children with autism. It describes the rationale for these tools and their structure, but it reports no patient data, no validation studies, and no outcomes. The authors explicitly state that the proposed tools have not yet been tested or validated. There is no finding to act on.