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. 2013 Fall;25(4):319-26.
doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.12070175.

Associations of sleep disturbance symptoms with health-related quality of life in Parkinson's disease

Alon Avidan, Ron D Hays, Natalie Diaz, Yvette Bordelon, Alexander W Thompson, Stefanie D Vassar, Barbara G Vickrey

Associations of sleep disturbance symptoms with health-related quality of life in Parkinson's disease

Alon Avidan et al. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2013 Fall.

Abstract

The authors examined associations of various sleep-disturbance symptoms with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in 153 adults with Parkinson's disease (PD). PD patients reported more snoring, sleep inadequacy, daytime somnolence, and sleep-maintenance problems than the general population. Symptoms having the broadest and strongest unique associations with generic HRQOL (eight scales; two composites of SF-36) were daytime somnolence (five scales; one composite), sleep initiation (eight scales; two composites), and awakening short of breath or with headache (six scales; two composites). Associations of selected sleep-disturbance symptoms--some unanticipated--suggest that assessing specific symptoms is worthwhile in clinical care.

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