ReviewFrontiers in neurology2020
Methodological Recommendations to Control for Factors Influencing Dream and Nightmare Recall in Clinical and Experimental Studies of Dreaming.
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- Dreaming in patients with epilepsy: a cross-sectional cohort study.Journal of sleep research · 2025Article
- Poor dream recall associates with Alzheimer's disease biomarkers and dementia risk.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Associations Between Both Adaptive and Maladaptive Personality Constructs and Emotional Load and Content of Adult Dreams.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2025Article
- The eveningness chronotype is associated with nightmare distress and dream recall: a cross-sectional study.Sleep and biological rhythms · 2023Article
- Sleep parameters improvement in PTSD soldiers after symptoms remission.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Relationship Between Epilepsy and Dreaming: Current Knowledge, Hypotheses, and Perspectives.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Long-term effects of treatment for chronic nightmares: is imagery rehearsal therapy robust in the COVID-19 pandemic?Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
In order to ensure robust relationships between the dependent and independent variables in clinical dream/nightmare studies, the major factors which influence the frequency of reported dreams must be controlled. This article sets out methodological recommendations to both researchers seeking to ensure the equivalence of experimental groups of participants in group-matching designs, and to clinicians who wish to check that any change in frequency of reported nightmares over the course of a psychological or a pharmacological intervention is not caused by factors other than the experimental treatment itself. The main factors influencing the frequency of dream recall are presented: demographic variables, psychological characteristics, pathological dimensions, and substance consumption. A series of questionnaires is proposed for easily measuring these control variables.
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