Effects of Blast Exposure on Subjective and Objective Sleep Measures in Combat Veterans with and without PTSD.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

This study examined the extent to which self-reported exposure to blast during deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan affects subjective and objective sleep measures in service members and veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Methods

Seventy-one medication-free service members and veterans (mean age = 29.47 ± 5.76 years old; 85% men) completed self-report sleep measures and overnight polysomnographic studies. Four multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs) were conducted to examine the impact of blast exposure and PTSD on subjective sleep measures, measures of sleep continuity, non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep parameters, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep parameters.

Results

There was no significant Blast × PTSD interaction

SUBMITTER: Stocker RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4702186 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature