Article: Sleep-disorders quiz awakens interest. (standard interview method developed for identifying sleep disorders)

An easily learned interview technique may enable mental health clinicians and researchers to diagnose sleep disorders more accurately and to distinguish primary sleep problems from those brought on by other psychiatric conditions, according to a study in the June AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

A research team at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiberg, Germany, developed the interview approach for sleep disorders based on the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association. Clinicians currently lack a standard interview method for identifying sleep disorders.

"Development of a structured ...

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