An Exploration of Reported Sleep Disturbance

Weiss, Hannah; Kasinoff, B H; Bailey, Maggie

doi:10.1097/00005053-196206000-00005

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“…The validity of both subjective methods of obtaining information about sleep habits (daily records and sleep questionaries) would seem to be enhanced by these results. The overall similarity between patients and "healthy" subjects in most aspects of both their sleep habits and their use of hypnotics also suggests that for most of the patients in the present study the presence ef physical symptoms did not of itself produce much long-term disturbance from the "normal" pattern of sleep, a conclusion similar to that of Weiss et al (1962).…”

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“…As was suggested by Weiss et al (1962), gastrointestinal, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, and respiratory symptoms alone didi not usualiy cause significant. lone-term sleep disturbance, though there may be exceptions to this.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…The few patients investigated and the absence of a detailed description of symptoms made this conclusion only tentative. Weiss et al (1962) found that chronic sleep disturbances, as reported in a sleep questionary, increased with age in groups of psychiatric patients, medical patients, and healthy airforce personnel. The psychiatric patients had significantly more sleep disturbance than the medical patients, who did not differ significantly from the healthy controls.…”

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Sleep Habits and Symptoms in Male Medical and Surgical Patients

Johns¹,

Egan²,

Gay³

et al. 1970

BMJ

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Maintenance Haemodialysis-Daly and Hassall BMEDICSAL JORNAL ferences between patients treated at home or in lhospital, by day or at night. Furthermore, the accumulation of metabolites between dialyses has no apparent effect on this measure.The findings concerning home dialysis are of particular importance, since the spouse provides one form of control. It is seen that on dialysis nights both patients and spouses lose sleep, but the patients regain their "sleep debt" more than their spouses on non-treatment nights. This suggests a psychological rather than a metabolic cause of insomnia on dialysis. It would add to the evidence showing stress on families of patients being treated with dialysis, particularly where the treatment is conducted in the home. This stress on the spouse would seem understandable in terms of their feelings about the patient's illness, and having responsibility for operating a complex life-support system. But, obviously, other criteria must be considered in deciding on the location for treatment-for example, the additional time the home dialysis patient spends with his family.Regarding the reliability of these data, Lewis (1969) investigated the accuracy of subjective estimates of sleep with objective (E.E.G.) recordings. He showed that, though subjects are not accurate in their estimates of the quantity of sleep, their estimates do shift in the direction of the objective measures. Thus they are reliable indices of change of sleep. Furthermore, in this study the data from patients in two geographically separate treatment centres showed no significant differences whereas there were significant differenices between spouses and patients.

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Sleep Habits and Symptoms in Male Medical and Surgical Patients

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Egan²,

Gay³

et al. 1970

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“…In general, objective measures of sleep in chronic non‐elderly insomniacs, although usually statistically significantly more disturbed than those of sleep in normal controls, do not show the severity suggested by the persistence and intensity of the associated complaints 41,93,235,236,285,303 . Thus, while sleep patterns are often not as disturbed as we might expect in patients with chronic insomnia, can we make the same assumption with respect to the elderly?…”

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“White Paper” on Sleep and Aging

Dement¹,

Miles²,

Carskadon³

1982

J American Geriatrics Society

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“…For example, patients in sleep disorders clinics with complaints of insomnia have a high incidence (65–85 per cent) of psychopathologic signs as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), with elevated scores typically found on the Hs, D, Hy, Pd, and Pt scales 3–5 . Moreover, psychiatric patients have a higher incidence of sleep disturbances than do normal subjects or medical patients 6 . Even among volunteers without sleep complaints, persons classified as poor sleepers on the basis of their responses to a sleep‐habit questionnaire and polysomnographic evaluation averaged higher scores (in the psychopathologic direction) on the MMPI than did good sleepers 7 .…”

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Relationship of Psychopathology to Insomnia in the Elderly

Roehrs

Lineback

Zorick

et al. 1982

J American Geriatrics Society

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Three groups of 18 volunteers each (nine men and nine women) were selected on the basis of age and the response to a sleep status questionnaire. Younger subjects (mean age, 43.8 years) who complained of difficulty in falling asleep or in staying asleep or of awakening too early were compared for evidence of psychopathologic signs with older subjects (mean age, 68.5 years) who had sleep-related complaints and with older subjects (mean age, 71.3 years) who did not have sleep-related complaints. Older subjects with insomnia complained more frequently of having trouble staying asleep and of awakening too early (P less than 0.05), whereas the younger subjects with insomnia complained primarily about difficulty in falling asleep (P less than 0.005). On a short form of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-168), the number of elevated scores indicating pathologic disturbances (T score less than 70) was higher (p less than 0.05) for the younger subjects with insomnia (2.5 high scores) than for older subjects with insomnia (0.7 high scores) or for older normal sleepers (0.4 high scores). These results imply that although in younger persons psychopathologic disorders are associated with insomnia, psychopathic disorders usually are not the cause of insomnia in the elderly.

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An Exploration of Reported Sleep Disturbance

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Sleep Habits and Symptoms in Male Medical and Surgical Patients

Sleep Habits and Symptoms in Male Medical and Surgical Patients

“White Paper” on Sleep and Aging

Relationship of Psychopathology to Insomnia in the Elderly

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