ArticleJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2017
Sleep Disturbances in OEF/OIF/OND Veterans: Associations with PTSD, Personality, and Coping.
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- Sleep disturbances following traumatic brain injury are associated with poor neurobehavioral outcomes in US military service members and veterans.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2021Article
- The resting-state functional connectivity of amygdala subregions associated with post-traumatic stress symptom and sleep quality in trauma survivors.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2021Article
- Gene Expression Differences Between Young Adults Based on Trauma History and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Longitudinal Associations between Sleep, Intrusive Thoughts, and Alcohol Problems Among Veterans.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Observational
- Sleep problems contribute to post-concussive symptoms in service members with a history of mild traumatic brain injury without posttraumatic stress disorder or major depressive disorder.NeuroRehabilitation · 2019Article
- Relation between coping and posttrauma cognitions on PTSD in a combat-trauma population.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Article
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objectivesSleep disturbances are well documented in relation to trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but correlates of such disturbances remain understudied in veteran populations. We conducted a preliminary study of sleep disturbances in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn veterans (n = 133; mean [standard deviation] age = 29.8 [4.7] y).
methodsVeterans were assigned to one of three groups based on responses to the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale: control (no trauma-exposure [TE] or PTSD), TE, and PTSD. Sleep disturbance was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Measures of resilience, trauma load, personality, coping, alcohol use, and mild traumatic brain injury were also assessed via self-report.
resultsThe PTSD group had significantly more disturbed sleep (PSQI global score mean = 8.94, standard deviation = 3.12) than control (mean = 5.27, standard deviation = 3.23) and TE (mean = 5.34, standard deviation = 3.17) groups, but there were no differences between TE and control. The same pattern emerged across most PSQI subscales. Results of linear regression analyses indicated that current smoking, Army (versus other military branches), neuroticism, and using substances to cope were all significant correlates of higher sleep disturbance, whereas post-deployment social support was associated with less sleep disturbance. However, when combined together into a model with PTSD status, only neuroticism and substance use coping remained significant as predictors of more disturbed sleep.
conclusionsThese initial findings suggest that TE itself may not be an independent risk factor for disturbed sleep in veterans, and that neurotic personality and a tendency to cope by using substances may partially explain sleep disturbance, above and beyond a diagnosis of PTSD.
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