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Behavioral Sleep Medicine: Current Research Developments
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Behavioral Sleep Medicine: Current Research Developments

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 January 2024) | Viewed by 3507

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Simón

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Health Psychology Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of A Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain
Interests: clinical health psychology; behavior therapy; clinical psychophysiology; sleep disorders
Prof. Dr. Ana M. Bueno

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Health Psychology Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of A Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain
Interests: clinical health psychology; behavior therapy; clinical psychophysiology; sleep disorders

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Behavioral sleep medicine is a multidisciplinary area of basic and clinical research focused on the study of the psychological (cognitive, emotional, and behavioral) mechanisms related to normal and pathological sleep, as well as with the development and application of empirically validated cognitive-behavioral procedures for the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders and associated problems. In this Special Issue, original articles on this healthcare research area will be considered. Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Normal human sleep
  • Sleep and human development
  • Sleep, neurocognitive function, and performance
  • Insomnia
  • Sleep related breathing disorders
  • Central disorders of hypersomnolence: narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia
  • Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders
  • Sleep related movement disorders
  • Parasomnias
  • Epidemiology of sleep disorders
  • Sleep and sleep disorders in special populations
  • Neurological disorders and sleep
  • Sleep and psychopathology
  • Behavioral assessment procedures and techniques
  • Cognitive-behavioral therapies.

Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Simón
Prof. Dr. Ana M. Bueno
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sleep
  • sleep disorders
  • sleep quality
  • epidemiology
  • behavioral sleep medicine
  • health care
  • clinical assessment
  • cognitive-behavioral treatment

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Factorial Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in Non-Professional Caregivers
by Patricia Otero, Miguel A. Simón, Ana M. Bueno, Vanessa Blanco and Fernando L. Vázquez
Healthcare 2023, 11(1), 67; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11010067 - 26 Dec 2022
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Although sleep issues are among the symptoms commonly experienced by the non-professional caregiver population, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is the most widely used instrument for the assessment of sleep quality, this has not been validated specifically for this population. The [...] Read more.
Although sleep issues are among the symptoms commonly experienced by the non-professional caregiver population, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is the most widely used instrument for the assessment of sleep quality, this has not been validated specifically for this population. The objective of this study was to analyze the factorial structure and psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the PSQI in a sample of Spanish non-professional caregivers. Trained clinical psychologists assessed sleep quality using the PSQI, as well as caregiver burden and psychological distress in 201 non-professional caregivers (87.1% female, Mage = 56.2 years). The internal consistency of the PSQI was 0.75. The two-factor model (Sleep quality and Disturbances) had an acceptable fit to the data, was found to be superior to the one-factor model, and more parsimonious than the three-factor model. There was a significant correlation between the PSQI and caregiver burden, as well as between the PSQI and psychological distress (p < 0.001 in all cases). A total score ≥ 9 allowed the identification of caregivers with possible anxiety and depression disorders (sensitivity 70.5%, specificity 71.9%). The results show that the PSQI is a reliable and valid instrument for the assessment of sleep quality in caregivers. Full article
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Sleep Disturbance, Psychological Distress and Perceived Burden in Female Family Caregivers of Dependent Patients with Dementia: A Case-Control Study
by Miguel A. Simón, Ana M. Bueno, Vanessa Blanco, Patricia Otero and Fernando L. Vázquez
Healthcare 2022, 10(12), 2435; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122435 - 2 Dec 2022
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This case-control study analyzed the sleep disturbance, psychological distress and perceived burden in female family caregivers of dependent people with dementia (n = 74) compared with female family caregivers of dependent people without dementia (n = 74) and with age-matched non-caregiver [...] Read more.
This case-control study analyzed the sleep disturbance, psychological distress and perceived burden in female family caregivers of dependent people with dementia (n = 74) compared with female family caregivers of dependent people without dementia (n = 74) and with age-matched non-caregiver control females (n = 74). Participants completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI) and an ad hoc questionnaire to collect sociodemographic data. There were significant differences between the groups in PSQI total (F = 24.93; p < 0.001), psychological distress (F = 26.71; p < 0.001) and in all sleep domains assessed: subjective sleep quality (F = 16.19; p < 0.001), sleep latency (F = 9.5; p< 0.001), sleep duration (F = 18.57; p < 0.001), habitual sleep efficiency (F = 19.77; p < 0.001), sleep disturbances (F = 9.22; p < 0.001), use of sleep medications (F = 4.24; p< 0.01) and daytime dysfunction (F = 5.57; p < 0.01). In all measures, the female family caregivers of dependent people with dementia showed the significantly higher mean scores. Regarding the two groups of female caregivers, statistically significant differences were found in daily hours of care (t = −2.45; p < 0.05) and perceived burden (t = −3.65; p < 0.001), as well as in the following dimensions of caregiver burden: time-dependence burden (t = −5.09; p < 0.001), developmental burden (t = −2.42; p < 0.05) and physical burden (t = −2.89; p < 0.01). These findings suggest that female family caregivers of dependent patients with dementia should be subject to psychopathological screening and preventive cognitive-behavioral interventions in clinical practice in primary health care. Full article
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