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S426 24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S349–S805
2 Psychiatric Hospital - Region of Southern Denmark, Psychiatric
Research Academy Odense, Odense C, Denmark
3 Psychiatric Hospital and University of Southern Denmark, Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, Odense C, Denmark
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction Attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD) is
the most frequent psychiatric disorder present in childhood, and
sleep-problems are a prominent, pervasive and clinically important
feature of ADHD. Our understanding of whether sleep-problems
mimic or exacerbate daytime ADHD-symptom expression remains
insufficient. Furthermore we lack knowledge about the connec-
tion between objective measuring and subjective observations in
children with early symptoms of ADHD.
Objective Future research that examines sleep-problems and
daily activity in very young children with and without ADHD-like
symptoms might help us identify early risk factors and achieve a
better understanding of the importance of sleep in ADHD.
Aims To investigate if sleep-problems and activity level during
day time is associated with early signs of ADHD.
Methods A sample of 50 preschool children ages 2–3 and their
parents recruited in a birth cohort are invited to participate and
divided into two groups of 25 cases and 25 controls based on
ADHD-symptom score. An actigraph on the child’s non-dominant
wrist measures sleep and daily activity. Sleep-latency, total sleep
time and awakenings are examined. Moderate-to-vigorous-activity
(MVPA) is the measure for daily activity. Subjective observations
fromparents are provided through questionnaires. Furthermorewe
examine the stability of the sleepproblemscore fromchildbehavior
checklist, which parents fulfilled when their child was 27months
old and again at the age of 5.
Results The results will be presented at the EPA March 2016 in
Madrid.
Conclusion Results from this study together with other findings
of risk factors in the cohort may lead to a preschool ADHD risk-
index, which can guide future early intervention.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
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Relationship between coping and
anxiety in young university
population
K. Cabas-Hoyos ∗, N. German-Ayala , E.D.L. Nadia , M.B. Loreina ,
U.U. Alicia
Grupo CAVIDA, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Pontificia
Bolivariana, Sede Montería, Cra. 6 No. 97A, 99, Montería, Colombia,
Cordoba, Monteria, Colombia
∗ Corresponding author.
In Latin American countries the University Entrance occurs before
17 years of age, in adolescence. The literature proposes some tasks
of this stage as the search for identity and definition of the plan of
life (Casullo et Fernández-Liporace, 2001). This stage is character-
ized by changes that may lead to stress (Frydenberg et Lewis, 1991)
and strategies and styles should be deployed to deal with situa-
tions surpluses. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship
between coping styles and anxiety in young university students.
The total sample consisted of n = 216 university students (53.2%
female, n = 115, 46.8%male, n = 101; between16 and18 years of age:
m= 17.32, SD = 0.70). The subjects answered the ACS (Frydenberg,
1997) which assesses coping styles in young people and the AMAS-
E (Reynolds, 2007) assessing anxiety. The design was corelational,
the data were analyzed using SPSS 21.0 statistical program.
Results and discussion As used style Troubleshooting reduces test
anxiety, the tendency of these two variables is negative (P = 0.01).
Implement the style Relating to others it will decrease test anxiety,
the tendency of both variables is negative and statistically signifi-
cant (P > 0.05). Stress in young people increases as gets underway
unproductive type ( P= 0.00). The results are consistent with the lit-
erature that suggests that late adolescents in academic challenges
cause such hardship (Marote et Martínez, 2001).
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
EV242
Strange behavior as defense
mechanism related to sensorial
impairment in autism
M.C. Cancino Botello ∗, A. Pe˜na Serrano ,
M.D.L.A. Canseco Navarro , J.M. Hernández Sánchez ,
F. Molina López
Consorcio Hospital General Universitario, Psychiatry, Valencia, Spain
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction So far, autism etiology is not known yet, it is
believed that is due a combination of neurobiological, structural,
genetic and environmental factors. This disorder is characterized by
social interaction and communication impairments and presence
of restricted and repetitive behaviors. Some authors have spoken
about Sensorial Perception Theory that tries to explain how senso-
rial impairment of people with autism causes “strange” conducts,
as a protective mechanism to stimuli they perceive as disturbing.
Objectives To highlight the role of sensorial perception in people
with autism in their way of interacting over the environment.
Method systematic review of the literature in English (PubMed),
with the following keywords: “Autism”, “sensory perception”, and
“Asperger syndrome”.
Results According to Sensorial Perception Theory, people with
autism perceive sensorial information from environment in dif-
ferent ways. It is believed that each sense operates as a hyper or
hyposensitive sense, according to the intensity and the moment
the stimulus is produced. This fact provokes “abnormal” responses
as repetitive or restricted behavior, in order to protect themselves
form the disturbing stimuli.
Conclusions Sensorial hyper o hyposensitive may be related to
the strange behavior that can be present in people with autism. If
we could interpret such conducts, we will be able to imagine how
patients are perceiving the world and then we could help them to
develop strategies in order to function more properly.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
EV243
ADHD and bipolar disorder challenge
in diagnosis in children and
adolescents
P. Cano Ruiz ∗, A. Gómez Peinado , S. Ca˜nas Fraile ,
P. Sanmartin Salinas
1 HNSPS, Psiquiatría, Albacete, Spain
2 Univeridad de Alcalá, Systems Biology, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction The professionals in charge of children and adoles-
cents with attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) should be prepared to treat a wide variety of psychiatric
symptoms, asmost have at least one comorbid psychiatric disorder.
Sometimes the differential diagnosis between ADHD and bipolar
disease is difficult because of overlapping symptoms between the
two disorders (Geller et al., 1997; Biederman et al., 2000; Singh
et al., 2006).