Parent sleep quality and fear of nighttime hypoglycaemia
Authors' conclusion
FoNH is a challenge for parents of youth with T1D. Targeted behavioural intervention to reduce FoNH and improve sleep may be beneficial. Future research should include objective measures of parent sleep and specific diabetes technology use overnight to disentangle mixed findings.
Study context
- Population
- Parents of children with T1D (mean age 43.00 [6.44] years, 89% female); CGM data from youth (mean age 12.97 [2.58] years, 47.8% female)CGM data from 116 youth
- Participants
- 136 parents
- Outcome
- Associations of overnight blood glucose (BG), parent sleep quality and fear of nighttime hypoglycaemia (FoNH)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Variance in the association between glucose variability and parent sleep quality explained by fear of nighttime hypoglycaemia (FoNH)
26%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
- Mixed findings regarding the role of diabetes technology in FoNH and sleep quality
Original publication
Parent sleep quality and fear of nighttime hypoglycaemia. Diabet Med. Published 2 August 2025. doi:10.
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