Sensory Processing Difficulties in Youths With Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

Frontiers in Psychiatry

David Cohen¹  Lyne Desrosiers²  Véronique Bury⁴  Hélène Lahaye⁴  Jean Marc Guilé⁵  Xavier Benarous⁷ 

[1] CNRS UMR 7222, Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Paris, France;Centre de recherche de l’Institut Universitaire Jeunes en difficulté, Québec, Québec, Canada;Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France;Department of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Amiens University Hospital, Amiens, France;Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada;Département d’ergothérapie, Trois-Rivières, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada;INSERM Unit U1105 Research Group for Analysis of the Multimodal Cerebral Function, University of Picardy Jules Verne (UPJV), Amiens, France;

关键词: sensory processing difficulties;    disruptive mood dysregulation disorder;    chronic irritability;    mood dysregulation;    sensory over-responsivity;    sensory modulation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00164

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Difficulty modulating sensory information has been described in children with developmental disorders. However, the relation of sensory processing difficulties (SPD) to emotional regulation problems remains poorly understood. The aim of this study is to determine the rate and patterns of SPD in youth with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD). Participants were DMDD patients aged 6–16 years presenting at a university hospital in outpatient or inpatient facilities (n = 30). For each participant, the parent-reported Sensory Profile, the Affective Lability Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition, the Child Behavior Checklist/4–18, and the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children–Present and Lifetime Version were completed. The scores of the Sensory Profile of the DMDD youths were compared to those obtained in a clinical control group and to the manual scores for same-age typically developing youths. SPD were reported in 53% of the subjects in the DMDD group compared to 33% in the clinical control group (p = 0.405). Youths with DMDD showed a significant difference on almost all items of the Sensory Profile compared to typically developing youth. The Sensory Profile was found to discriminate best between the participants with DMDD and those in the clinical control group with regard to the category “Behavioral outcomes of sensory processing” and the factor “Fine motor/perceptual behavior.” All types of sensory processing patterns were reported in the DMDD youths: sensation avoiding (40%), low registration (27%), sensory sensitivity (20%), and sensation seeking (10%). As a group, youths with DMDD have significantly more SPD when compared to typical youths. Therefore, SPD could be an important factor to consider in youths with DMDD when providing comprehensive assessment and therapeutic interventions.

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