Many studies have provided strong evidence of a fundamental and complex role for sleep disturbances in adult posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Investigations of adult PTSD using subjective and objective measures document sleep architecture abnormalities and high prevalence of sleep disordered breathing, periodic limb movement disorder, nightmares, and insomnia. PTSD treatment methods do app...

OBJECTIVE The paper goes through the basic knowledge about classification of sleep stages from polysomnographic recordings. The next goal was to review and compare a large number of measures to find the suitable candidates for the study of sleep onset and sleep evolution. METHODS AND MATERIAL A huge number of characteristics, including relevant simple measures in time domain, characteristics ...

Clinical trials in sleep medicine cover a wide range of sleep–wake problems, and accordingly the selection of outcome measures in sleep medicine clinical trials needs to be tailored to the specific disorder under examination. This review describes the measures most commonly used in sleep medicine clinical trials, weighing the relative merits of a self-report questionnaire versus a physiologic t...

the purpose of this study was the effect of time of training and first night of sleep on implicit (accuracy) and motor (timing) components of timed motor sequences task (tmst) enhancement. forty-eight right-handed students (19-25 years old), who have had adequate sleep quality, were divided into three equal groups according to purdue hand and fingers' fine motor skills test and simple reac...

Background & objectives: The aging population of the world is increasing. One of the problems that occur along with age is sleep disorder, leading to a gradual decrease in the quality of life in the elderly. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of sleep and related factors in the elderly patients hospitalized in Imam Khomeini Hospital of Khalkhal in 2016. Methods: The present stud...

OBJECTIVE: Sleep disruption is common in widow(er)s. The objective of this study was to characterize the sleep of Spousally Bereaved (SB) seniors (60y+) studied within 4-19 months of being widowed. METHOD: Subjective (PSQI, 2-weeks diary) and objective (2-weeks actigraphy) baseline sleep measures were obtained in 47 (38f, 9m) Spousally Bereaved (SB) seniors, 33 (25f, 8m) Good Sleeper Controls (...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether standardized survey instruments and objective performance measures differentiate traditional constructs of sleepiness and fatigue among a sample of postpartum mothers. Additionally, we wanted to explore the independent associations among these measures with actigraphically measured nocturnal sleep variables. METHOD Seventy-nine postpartum mothers' subjective sleep...

ABSTRACT The Board of Directors of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) commissioned a Task Force to develop quality measures as part of its strategic plan to promote high quality patient-centered care. Among many potential dimensions of quality, the AASM requested Workgroups to develop outcome and process measures to aid in evaluating the quality of care of five common sleep disorders...

We know of no studies comparing parent-reported sleep with accelerometer-estimated sleep in their relation to paediatric adiposity. We examined: (i) the reliability of mother-reported sleep compared with accelerometer-estimated sleep; and (ii) the relationship between both sleep measures and child adiposity. The current cross-sectional study included 303 Mexican American mother-child pairs recr...