Subjective versus objective sleep in Vietnam combat veterans hospitalized for PTSD

✍ Scribed by Steven H. Woodward; Donald L. Bliwise; Matthew J. Friedman; D. Fred Gusman

• Book ID: 102448013
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 340 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490090112

✦ Synopsis

Twenty -five Vietnam combat veterans with chronic severe posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) completed a sleep selfreport questionnaire on admission to an inpatient treatment program. Between 1 and 2 months later each spent 3 or more nights in the sleep laboratory. When selj-report and laboratory findings were compared, significant relationships were observed between sleep schedule items such as time-to-bedltime-out-of bed and polysomnographic measures of sleep. In contrast, global ratings of sleep quality were generally unrelated to polysomnographic measures. These findings may have implications for survey research assessing sleep quality in traumatized populations.