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Sleep Disorder Over Time: Psychiatric Correlates Among Males

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Hervey Sweetwood ,
Igor Grant ,
Daniel F. Kripke ,
Marvin S. Gerst  and
Joel Yager
Hervey Sweetwood
Affiliation:
Research Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, San Diego, California
Igor Grant
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Service (116), V.A. Hospital, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, California 92161 and Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine
Daniel F. Kripke
Affiliation:
Psychiatry and Research Service, V.A. Hospital, San Diego and Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine
Marvin S. Gerst
Affiliation:
Psychology Service, V.A. Hospital, San Diego and Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine
Joel Yager
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Service, Brentwood V.A. Hospital, Los Angeles and Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine
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Summary

This 18 month prospective study assessed the time course of sleep disturbances in 85 male psychiatric out-patients and 103 male non-patients. Over one-third of the patients and 5 per cent of the non-patients reported frequent symptoms of insomnia during at least 14 of the 18 months. Frequency and chronicity of insomnia were strongly associated with intensity of psychiatric symptomatology, but not with diagnosis. Minor tranquillizers and hypnotics were used frequently by patients and occasionally by non-patients, but there was little indication that they altered the course of insomnia.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 136 , Issue 5 , May 1980 , pp. 456 - 462
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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