Differential Associations Between Sleep Domains and Response to Prolonged Exposure Therapy.

ABSTRACT: Prolonged Exposure (PE) is an effective evidence-based psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, a small subset of veterans fails to achieve meaningful symptom reduction from PE. Given sleep's role in memory consolidation, poor sleep quality may adversely affect fear extinction learning central to PE. Existing research on sleep and PE response often relies on single-item or global measures that miss nuanced sleep processes, assesses sleep as static (e.g., at baseline) rather than as a dynamic process, or focuses on concurrent rather than prospective associations. This study used a multidimensional measure of sleep quality to evaluate whether changes across several domains of sleep concurrently and prospectively predicted reduced PTSD symptoms. Sleep quality was asses

SUBMITTER: Yap DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12729736 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature