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Article: Sleep Disturbance during Military Deployment
- Article from:
- Military Medicine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Mar 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT This preliminary investigation evaluated symptoms of sleep disturbance and insomnia in a group of 156 deployed military personnel. A 21-item Military Deployment Survey of Sleep was administered to provide self-reported estimates of a variety of sleep parameters. The results indicated that 74% of participants rated their quality of sleep as significantly worse in the deployed environment, 40% had a sleep efficiency of <85%, and 42% had a sleep onset latency of >30 minutes. Night-shift workers had significantly worse sleep efficiency and more problems getting to sleep and staying asleep as compared to day-shift workers. The results of the study indicate the need for programs to ...