Table 2.
Comparison of the Overall Acquired Brain Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury Cohorts to Healthy Controls Reported for the Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children
| SDSC scale | Healthy Control Sample25 N=1157 |
Overall cohort N=78 |
TBI subgroup N=40 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDSC Total, Mean (SD) | 35.1 (7.7) | 39.4 (10.7)** | 38.6 (9.7)* |
| Disorders of Initiation and Maintenance of Sleep, Mean (SD) | 9.9 (3.1) | 13.2 (5.3)** | 12.7 (4.7)** |
| Sleep Breathing Disorder, Mean (SD) | 3.8 (1.5) | 3.9 (1.7) | 3.5 (1.0) |
| Disorders of Arousal, Mean (SD) | 3.3 (0.8) | 3.6 (1.7)* | 3.3 (1.0) |
| Sleep Wake Transition Disorders, Mean (SD) | 8.1 (2.4) | 8.7 (3.1)* | 8.8 (3.7) |
| Hypersomnolence, Mean (SD) | 7.1 (2.6) | 7.5 (2.5) | 7.6 (2.8) |
| Sleep Hyperhidrosis, Mean (SD) | 2.9 (1.7) | 2.5 (1.1) | 2.6 (1.0) |
TBI: Traumatic Brain Injury; SDSC: Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children; SD: Standard Deviation Healthy controls obtained from Bruni et al validation study25
**
p<0.001 when compared to healthy control populations in published literature;
*
p<0.05; comparisons with unpaired t-tests