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| Sleep complaints, subjective and objective sleep patterns, health, psychological adjustment and daytime functioning in community-dwelling older adults | | Author(s) | Christina S McCrae, Meredeth A Rowe, Candece G Tierney |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 4, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp P182-P189 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Sleep behaviour ; Quality ; Sleep disorders ; Living in the community ; Measurement ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors collected 2 weeks of sleep diaries and actigraphy for a sample of 103 older people aged 60+ living in Florida. Only health distinguished complaining from non-complaining sleepers. Non-complaining good sleepers had poorer objective sleep quality than complaining poor sleepers. Actigraphy distinguished non-complaining good and complaining poor sleepers only. Subjective and objective sleep qualities were related to non-complainers only; the relationship was stronger for women. Implications include a need for research that explores: firstly, sleep complaints, sleep perceptions and health; secondly, interventions focusing on older individuals with insomnia secondary to or comorbid with poor health; and thirdly, gender differences in subjective sleep estimates and in "single-shot" versus longitudinal sleep measures. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051121214 A |
| Classmark | CG: 59: CTS: K4: 3R: 7T |
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