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Scenario
In community paediatric outpatient clinics, several parents have asked you about the use of weighted blankets to help their children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) get to sleep. Weighted blankets had been recommended by the local ASD support group and the parents wanted to know if you thought they were worth buying.
Structured clinical question
In a child with autism (patient) do ‘weighted blankets’ (intervention) have any positive effect on sleep (outcome)?
Search strategy and outcome
The search was done in June 2013.
Secondary sources
Cochrane Database yielded no results.
Primary sources
A search of MEDLINE using ‘weighted blanket’ OR ‘weighted vest’ OR ‘pressure vest’ AND ‘autistic spectrum disorder’ yielded 11 results, of which 0 were relevant.
A search of MEDLINE using ‘weighted blanket’ OR ‘weighted vest’ OR ‘pressure vest’ AND ‘sleep’ yielded 0 results.
A search of CINAHL using ‘weighted blanket’ OR “weighted vest’ OR ‘pressure vest’ AND ‘autistic spectrum disorder’ yielded 11 results, of which 0 were relevant.
A search of CINAHL using ‘weighted blanket’ OR ‘weighted …
Footnotes
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Contributors Both authors completed the literature review and contributed to writing the article.
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Competing interests None.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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