Childhood trauma and gender: Synergistic and additive effects on sleep in healthy young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine whether gender moderates the effects of childhood trauma on subjective and objective sleep measures.

Design

Secondary data analysis, exploratory SETTINGS: Sleep research lab PARTICIPANTS: A total of 213 men and 278 women aged 18-30 completed subjective measures. A subsample of 172 participants without any psychiatric, medical, or sleep disorders completed objective polysomnography for 1 night at baseline, before sleep manipulation.

Measurements

Subjective measures: Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Insomnia Severity Index, and Epworth Sleepiness Scale. Objective measures: Standard polysomnography measures. Multiple regressions determined whether gender moderated CTQ score on any objective or subjective sleep me

SUBMITTER: Oh CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10262693 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature