Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.
To say that the world of children has been turned upside down by the pandemic is an understatement. Anecdotally, there has been a significant increase in reports of disturbed sleep. Is this to be expected, even in those kids for whom quality sleep was never an issue?
Dr Melisa Moore
Medscape spoke with Melisa E. Moore, PhD, a psychologist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, about her own practice and her advice for pediatric primary care clinicians.
Has the pandemic changed the volume or type of sleep complaints you are seeing in your practice?
Early on, like most places, we were seeing fewer patients in person and more on video. Those children who were coming in were being seen for severe concerns, such as breathing problems during sleep and obstructive sleep apneaNow that we have gotten into the rhythm of telehealth and video visits, we are packed with all kinds of different patients. Anxious children who can't fall asleep. Patients with funny feelings in their legs that might have restless leg syndrome. Sleep terrors. Frequent night awakenings. As is
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Kids, Sleep, and COVID: Times Have Changed
Interviewer: Laurie Scudder, DNP, PMP; Interviewee: Melisa E. Moore, PhD, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at CHOP
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Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.
To say that the world of children has been turned upside down by the pandemic is an understatement. Anecdotally, there has been a significant increase in reports of disturbed sleep. Is this to be expected, even in those kids for whom quality sleep was never an issue?
Dr Melisa Moore
Medscape spoke with Melisa E. Moore, PhD, a psychologist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, about her own practice and her advice for pediatric primary care clinicians.
Has the pandemic changed the volume or type of sleep complaints you are seeing in your practice?
Early on, like most places, we were seeing fewer patients in person and more on video. Those children who were coming in were being seen for severe concerns, such as breathing problems during sleep and obstructive sleep apneaNow that we have gotten into the rhythm of telehealth and video visits, we are packed with all kinds of different patients. Anxious children who can't fall asleep. Patients with funny feelings in their legs that might have restless leg syndrome. Sleep terrors. Frequent night awakenings. As is
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Laurie Scudder, DNP, PNP