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Sleep Quality and Presleep Arousal in Chronic Pain

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This study was designed (1) to characterize the extent and nature of sleep complaints of chronic pain patients and (2) to examine the factors that predict sleep quality. A heterogeneous sample of 51 outpatients with benign, chronic pain was recruited from newspaper and pain clinic advertisements. Patients completed a variety of self-report instruments including the Multidimensional Pain Inventory, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Pre-Sleep Arousal Scale, and the Beck Depression Inventory. Sleep complaints were reported by 88% of the sample. Presleep cognitive arousal, rather than pain severity, was found to be the primary predictor of sleep quality.

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  1. Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA

    M. T. Smith, M. L. Perlis, M. S. Smith & D. E. Giles

  2. Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Rochester, USA

    D. E. Giles

  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

    T. P. Carmody

  4. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco

    T. P. Carmody

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Smith, M.T., Perlis, M.L., Smith, M.S. et al. Sleep Quality and Presleep Arousal in Chronic Pain. J Behav Med 23, 1–13 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005444719169

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