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  • Sleep Medicine
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Insomnia is a prevalent sleep disorder affecting cognitive functions.
  • Activity-based prospective memory (ABPM) is crucial for daily task completion.
  • Different insomnia subtypes may have varying impacts on cognitive performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess ABPM performance in patients with different insomnia subtypes.
  • To compare ABPM in insomnia patients and healthy controls.
  • To explore the relationship between sleep fragmentation and ABPM.

Main Methods:

  • 153 insomnia patients and 121 healthy controls participated.
  • Actigraphy was used to classify insomnia into subtypes: sleep onset, maintenance, mixed, and negative misperception.
  • Participants performed an ABPM task by pressing an actigraph button at bedtime and wake-up.

Main Results:

  • Maintenance and mixed insomnia patients demonstrated significantly lower ABPM accuracy at wake-up compared to healthy controls.
  • Sleep onset and negative misperception insomnia groups did not show significant differences in ABPM performance.
  • Actigraphy data indicated a potential link between sleep fragmentation and reduced ABPM efficiency.

Conclusions:

  • Maintenance and mixed insomnia are associated with impaired activity-based prospective memory.
  • Sleep onset and negative misperception insomnia subtypes do not appear to affect ABPM.
  • Sleep fragmentation may be a key factor influencing prospective memory at wake-up.