The Relationship between Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes about Sleep and Sleep Structure in Patients with Insomnia: A Controlled Study
- 1 School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
- 2 The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
- 3 The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Abstract
Sleep is the basic survival process of human beings. However, it is clinically observed that patients with insomnia are often accompanied by cognitive disorders related to sleep. The study explores the relationship between sleep structure changes and dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes of patients with insomnia. In this study, 35 patients with insomnia disorders and 28 normal controls were evaluated as sleep attitude and belief scales and overnight-monitor polysomnography. The results show that there are significant differences in sleep parameters between the insomnia group and the control group ( p < 0.05). The DBAS-16 score of the insomnia group is significantly lower than that of the control group, both in terms of overall comparison and gender comparison ( p < 0.05). And there is a significant positive correlation between DBAS-16 and sleep efficiency in patients with insomnia ( r = 0.34, p < 0.05). Among them, the estimated factors for sleep consequences are significantly positively related to sleep efficiency ( r = 0.34, p < 0.05). Therefore, this study draws the following conclusions: through the comparison, it is found that patients with insomnia disorders have unreasonable sleep beliefs, and the sleep structure is different from that of the normal control group. The unreasonable beliefs of insomnia patients are related to sleep efficiency.
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