Individuals with and without military-related PTSD differ in subjective sleepiness and alertness but not objective sleepiness.

ABSTRACT: Posttraumatic stress disorder-related sleep disturbances may increase daytime sleepiness and compromise performance in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder. We investigated nighttime sleep predictors of sleepiness in Veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. Thirty-seven post-9/11 Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and 47 without posttraumatic stress disorder (Control) completed a 48-h lab stay. Nighttime quantitative EEG and sleep architecture parameters were collected with polysomnography. Data from daytime sleepiness batteries assessing subjective sleepiness (global vigor questionnaire), objective sleepiness (Multiple Sleep Latency Tests) and alertness (psychomotor vigilance task) were included in analyses. Independent samples t-tests and linear regress

SUBMITTER: LaGoy AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8762690 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature