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Therapeutic Dilemma: Melatonin or not?

Savithiri Ratnapalan, Michael Rieder
Other Paediatrics & child health 2025
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Study Design

研究类型
review
干预措施
Therapeutic Dilemma: Melatonin or not? low doses melatonin (unspecified); melatonin for jet lag (adults)
对照组
Placebo
效应方向
Positive
偏倚风险
Unclear

Abstract

Sleep disturbances are common in childhood, especially among neurodivergent children. There are few proven therapeutic options. Melatonin is a hormone that is critical to the normal human sleep cycle. Melatonin therapy has been proven to be effective in adults with jet lag and there is emerging evidence that it may be of value when used in low doses for neurodivergent children. There is however no evidence that melatonin is of utility in addressing sleep problems in otherwise well children.

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