Insomnia characteristics and clinical correlates in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and mild traumatic brain injury: An exploratory study

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 850-859

  Wallace, D M ^a,b   Shafazand, S ^c   Ramos, A R ^b   Carvalho, D Z ^d   Gardener, H ^a   Lorenzo, D ^a,b   Wohlgemuth, W K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Critical Care and Sleep Medicine ^*  (United States)

^d HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Actigraphy; Insomnia; Post traumatic stress disorder; Sleep disturbances; Traumatic brain injury; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INSOMNIA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PAIN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP TIME; SOMNOLENCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTIGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80455174578     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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