The relationship between subjective sleep disturbance and complexity of 24-hour activity utilizing fractal theory in psychiatric inpatients

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-16

  Yamahara, Mari ^a,b   Noguchi, Toshifumi ^a,c   Okawa, Masako ^a   Yamada, Naoto ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NAGAHAMA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c The University of Shiga Prefecture   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actigraph; Complexity; Fractal dimension; Fractal theory; Psychiatric disorders; Sleep disturbance

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTAL THEORY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; MONITORING; MOOD DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP DISORDER; THEORY; WRIST;

EID: 63049094019     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2008.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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