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Insomnia in Older Adults: Relations to Depression and Anxiety
Leah Friedman1, John O Brooks1, Donald L Bliwise1
1Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
Abstract:
The authors examine the relations between insomnia and depression using the Beck Depression Inventory and between insomnia and anxiety using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Neuroticism Extroversion Openness-Personality Inventory (NEO) in a sample of 27 community-dwelling older patients with insomnia (mean age = 70.1 years). Sleep parameters were measured using both subjective (daily sleep logs) and objective (wrist actigraph) methods. Results varied according to the method used to measure sleep: with sleep logs, longer wake after sleep onset was related to both greater depression and anxiety (NEO), and longer time in bed was related to greater anxiety (NEO); with the actigraph, longer total sleep time was related to both greater depression and anxiety, and shorter sleep onset was related to greater depression.
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