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This study evaluated sleep disturbances in children with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">DD<\/jats:styled-content> referred to a hospital clinic and compared their scores with healthy controls.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We consecutively enrolled 147 children (66% male) aged 10.26 \u00b1 2.63 years who were referred by clinical paediatricians to the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at the Second University of Naples with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">DD<\/jats:styled-content> and 766 children without <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">DD<\/jats:styled-content> (60% male) aged 10.49 \u00b1 2.39 years recruited from schools in the same urban area. Sleep disturbances were assessed with the Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SDSC<\/jats:styled-content>), which was filled out by the children's main carers.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Compared with the controls, the children with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">DD<\/jats:styled-content> showed significantly higher rates of above threshold scores on the total <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">SDSC<\/jats:styled-content> score (p &lt; 0.001) and on the subscales for disorders in initiating and maintaining sleep (p &lt; 0.001), sleep breathing disorders (p &lt; 0.001) and disorders of arousal (p &lt; 0.001).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Sleep disorders were significantly more frequent in children with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">DD<\/jats:styled-content> than in healthy controls. 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