Melatonin for Cerebral Palsy Children's Sleep and Health
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2018-09-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The present study was prospective uncontrolled, single-armed and un-blinded study. Held in
the Pediatric neurology clinic, Children's hospital l, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams
University from June 2016 to June 2018 of 24 months timeframe. All cerebral palsy (CP)
patients following up in Pediatric neurology clinic aged between 2 and 12 years. Melatonin
given for 3 months. Anthropmetric measures, gastroeintestinal symptoms, Children's sleep
habits questionnaire (CSHQ) Arabic version, polysomnography, Chalfont epilepsy severity
score, and EEG were done at enrollment and after the 3-months.