Prevalence and Predictors of Prescription Sleep Aid Use among Individuals with DSM-5 Insomnia: The Role of Hyperarousal | Zendy

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Prevalence and Predictors of Prescription Sleep Aid Use among Individuals with DSM-5 Insomnia: The Role of Hyperarousal

Author(s) -

Vivek Pillai,

Philip Cheng,

David A. Kalmbach,

Timothy Roehrs,

Thomas Roth,

Christopher L. Drake

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

sleep

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222

H-Index - 207

eISSN - 1550-9109

pISSN - 0161-8105

DOI - 10.5665/sleep.5636

Subject(s) - alertness , anxiety , insomnia , medicine , odds ratio , confidence interval , depression (economics) , sleep disorder , population , psychiatry , generalized anxiety disorder , cohort , physical therapy , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics

Despite mounting evidence for the overuse of prescription sleep aids (PSA), reliable data on PSA use among insomniacs are unavailable. Current studies focus on trends in PSA use at the general population level, and thus do not distinguish between transient sleep disturbance and insomnia disorder. Therefore, we prospectively examined the prevalence and predictors of baseline and chronic PSA use in a well-defined sample of individuals with insomnia.

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