Sleep of chronic post-traumatic patients

✍ Scribed by Hananyah Glaubman; Mario Mikulincer; Anat Porat; Orna Wasserman; Moshe Birger

• Book ID: 102445702
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 463 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490030207

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the sleep of people diagnosed as suffering from chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Dkorder (PTSD). The sleep of seven chronic post-traumatic patients with no known physical injuries was compared with that of seven matched control subjects. The post-traumatic patients had poorer sleep: decreased sleep efficiency, increase in number of awakenings, and decreased SWS, as well as longer REM latency. It was also found that their complaints correlated with relevant sleep-monitored measures. The findings add further support for the inclusion of sleep difficulties in the definition of the Post-Traumatic S t r w Dirorder.