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Some 43% of elementary school aged children with insomnia continue to suffer from it into adolescence and young adulthood.  This from a Penn State longitudinal study of 502 children initially studied when they were 5 to 12 years of age with followup evaluations 7 and 15 years later when they were at median ages of 16 years and 24 years.

 

In addition to the 43% who were chronic insomniacs 27% of the group experienced durable remissions of their insomnia by adolescence.  Another 19% of the children experienced insomnia that waxed and waned through adolescence into adulthood.  Looking at those children without insomnia,  about 15% of them developed it as adolescents and continued to suffer from it into adulthood.  Another 21% of those without insomnia in childhood or adolescence developed it as adults. 

 

The take home: a majority, that is 58%, of those children who developed insomnia up through their teen years continue to suffer from it as young adults.

 

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/doi/10.1542/peds.2021-053616/184817/Trajectories-of-Insomnia-Symptoms-From-Childhood?redirectedFrom=fulltext

 

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