@article{ref1,
title="Shared PTSD and paradox insomnia among wives of veterans with chronic war induced PTSD: a preliminary study",
journal="Iranian journal of psychiatry and behavioral sciences",
year="2018",
author="Mohammadi, Hiwa and Nasori, Marziye and Ghadami, Mohammad Rasoul and Khaledi-Paveh, Behnam and Rezaei, Leeba and Khazaie, Habibolah",
volume="12",
number="3",
pages="e12759-e12759",
abstract="Background: War-induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its complications can be passed on to patients’ family members.  Objectives: This study aims to investigate PTSD symptoms and sleep quality among chronic PTSD patients and their wives.  Methods: PTSD symptoms were evaluated among 14 veterans with chronic PTSD and their wives by the PTSD checklist - Military version (PCL-M). Objective and subjective sleep data were collected by actigraphy and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), respectively. Data was analyzed using t - tests, χ2, and Pearson or Spearman correlation coefficient by SPSS software version 16.  Results: According to PCL-M, seven wives were diagnosed with PTSD while others reported high PCL scores. Total PCL-M scores did not differ significantly between veterans and wives: there was, instead, a significantly positive correlation between these two groups (r = 0.563; P = 0.036). Veterans with PTSD reported significantly poorer sleep quality compared to their wives on the PSQI (P < 0.05), however, not in the actigraphy. Veterans’ PSQI and actigraphy sleep indices differed significantly (P < 0.01). Subjective sleep latency (41.79 ± 29.65) was significantly higher than objective (11.38 ± 28.64) among wives (P < 0.01). A significant positive correlation was observed between the two groups’ subjective sleep efficiency (r = 0.569; P = 0.03) and between PTSD severity and PSQI total scores (r = 0.53; P < 0.01).  Conclusions: The wives of persons with PTSD indicated some degree of PTSD. Veterans with PTSD reported poorer sleep quality than their wives. PTSD can negatively influence sleep quality.  Keywords: Sleep Quality; Chronic PTSD; Insomnia  Copyright © 2018, Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited. <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1735-8639",
doi="10.5812/ijpbs.12759",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijpbs.12759"
}