Sleep Disturbance during Military Deployment
Open Access
- 1 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Military Medicine
- Vol. 173 (3), 230-235
- https://doi.org/10.7205/milmed.173.3.230
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 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 help deployed military members get more and better sleep.Keywords
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