Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on Sleep Health: A Scoping Review in Current Context
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Introduction: Sleep is critical for physical, mental, and emotional health (Duraccio et al., 2024). Sleep quality is a known marker of overall health. Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) have been documented to have long-term impacts on sleep (Wu et al., 2024) among children and adults (Olsen et al., 2024). ACEs refers to various forms of trauma, such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction, experienced before the age of 18 (Felitti et al., 1998). This systematic review investigated an effect of adverse childhood
experiences (ACEs) on sleep health.
Methods: The objective was achieved by carefully organizing the results achieved through a range of present research. The systematic review study followed the protocol outlined by PRISMA. Due to time constraint a literature search was carried out on only one database i.e. Google Scholar published from 2024 onwards. The key terms used were “Adverse Childhood Experiences”, “Sleep Health”, “Trauma”, and “Sleep Quality”. The search strategy was executed under three phases: search, screening, and selection. Results were obtained through potentially relevant articles.
Results: The systematic review indicates that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are significantly associated with sleep quality (Sheffler et al., 2024; Zhang et al., 2024; Olsen et al., 2024; Qu et al., 2023), sleep duration (Covington et al., 2024;O’Neill et al., 2022), reduced daily steps, and REM sleep (Angeles, 2024), persistent insomnia (Wu et al., 2024), sleep disturbance (Ashour et al., 2024), overweight/obesity (Covington et al., 2024), less sleep (Sadikova et al., 2024), difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep, problematic sleep environments (i.e., place slept) and increased snoring, less sleep on weekends and increased social jet lag (Duraccio et al., 2024).
Conclusion: The findings underscore the critical need for addressing ACEs in interventions to improve sleep health, highlighting the importance of early detection and comprehensive therapeutic approaches to mitigate the long-term impacts on sleep.
Keywords: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Sleep Health, Trauma, Sleep Quality, Social jet lag
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