Sleep habits and orofacial myofunctional self-assessment of children at risk for sleep breathing disorders.
Melissa Picinato-Pirola, Amanda Lima E Lira, Giovanna Régis Viana and 2 others
PMID 38126423WHAT IT FOUND
Children with more orofacial complaints and poorer sleep habits were more likely to screen positive for sleep breathing disorder risk.
All children screened as low risk for obstructive sleep apnea, but higher scores on one questionnaire correlated with higher scores on the others.
Key findings
01Scores for sleep breathing disorder risk, orofacial myofunctional complaints, and sleep disturbances were positively correlated with each other.
02All children in the sample were screened as being at low risk for obstructive sleep breathing disorders.
03The sample mean score for sleep habits was above the cutoff, suggesting a possible sleep disorder in the group.
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What it does not show
All participants were at low risk for sleep breathing disorders, so the study could not compare high-risk children to low-risk ones. Data was collected remotely via questionnaires, so no clinical examination or objective testing (like polysomnography) was performed. The study is cross-sectional, so it cannot determine if orofacial complaints cause sleep issues or vice versa.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the correlations as proof that orofacial complaints cause sleep breathing disorders. The study only showed that scores on three screening tools moved together in a group where everyone was actually at low risk for sleep apnea.