Authors: Peterson, Alan L.¹; Goodie, Jeffrey L.²; Satterfield, William A.³; Brim, William L.⁴

Source: Military Medicine, Volume 173, Number 3, March 2008 , pp. 230-235(6)

Publisher: AMSUS - Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S.

Abstract:

This preliminary investigation evaluated symptoms of sleep disturbance and insomnia in a group of 156 deployed military personnel. A 21-item Military Deployment Survey of Sleep was administered to provide self-reported estimates of a variety of sleep parameters. The results indicated that 74% of participants rated their quality of sleep as significantly worse in the deployed environment, 40% had a sleep efficiency of <85%, and 42% had a sleep onset latency of >30 minutes. Night-shift workers had significantly worse sleep efficiency and more problems getting to sleep and staying asleep as compared to day-shift workers. The results of the study indicate the need for programs to help deployed military members get more and better sleep.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Psychiatry, Mail Code 7792, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd C Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900. 2: Department of Family Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-4779. 3: David Grant Medical Center, 101 Bodin Circle, Travis AFB, CA 94535. 4: Malcolm Grow USAF Medical Center, 79 MDOS/SGOH, 1050 West Perimeter Road, Andrews AFB, MD 20762-6601.

Publication date: 2008-03-01

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