Prevalence and Clinical Picture of Sleep Paralysis in a Polish Student Sample.

ABSTRACT: Sleep paralysis (SP) is a psychobiological phenomenon caused by temporary desynchrony in the architecture of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. It affects approximately 7.6% of the general population during their lifetime. The aim of this study was to assess (1) the prevalence of SP among Polish students in Lublin (n = 439) using self-reported online surveys, (2) the frequency of SP-related somatic and psychopathologic symptoms, and (3) the factors potentially affecting the occurrence of symptoms among people experiencing SP. We found that the incidence of SP in the Polish student population was slightly higher (32%) than the average prevalence found in other student populations (28.3%). The SP clinical picture was dominated by somatic symptomatology: 94% of respondents reported somatic sympt

SUBMITTER: Wrobel-Knybel P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7277803 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature