Melatonin in paediatric sleep disorders
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Insomnia and other non-respiratory sleep disorders in children and adolescents are a widespread problem, with a higher prevalence in children with neurodevelopmental or psychiatric co-morbidities. Although non-drug treatments, such as behavioural therapy can be extremely effective in some forms of paediatric insomnia, clinical experience and studies with children with neuropsychiatric disorders indicate that these patients have lower response rates to behavioural therapy. There are no drugs licensed for the treatment of sleep disorders in children in the UK.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008