Recommendations for a standard research assessment of insomnia

DJ Buysse, S Ancoli-Israel, JD Edinger, KL Lichstein… - Sleep, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives: To present expert consensus recommendations for a standard set
of research assessments in insomnia, reporting standards for these assessments, and …

Exercise and sleep

HS Driver, SR Taylor - Sleep medicine reviews, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the literature on the association between exercise and sleep. The
epidemiological and experimental evidence for whether or not acute and chronic exercise …

The assessment of fatigue: a practical guide for clinicians and researchers

AJ Dittner, SC Wessely, RG Brown - Journal of psychosomatic research, 2004 - Elsevier
Objectives: Fatigue is a common feature of physical and neurological disease as well as
psychiatric disorders, often reported amongst patients' most severe and distressing …

Validation of the fatigue severity scale in a Swiss cohort

PO Valko, CL Bassetti, KE Bloch, U Held, CR Baumann - Sleep, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Background: Fatigue is highly prevalent and has a negative impact on quality of life and
performance in a variety of disorders. The 9-item Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) is one of the …

Insomnia in the context of cancer: a review of a neglected problem

J Savard, CM Morin - Journal of clinical oncology, 2001 - ascopubs.org
This article reviews the evidence on the diagnosis, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment of
insomnia in the context of cancer and proposes several areas for future research. Clinical …

Insomnia and health-related quality of life

SD Kyle, K Morgan, CA Espie - Sleep medicine reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) has become an important construct in contemporary
medicine and health care, permitting assessment of disorder burden and evaluation of …

Quantitative criteria for insomnia

KL Lichstein, HH Durrence, DJ Taylor, AJ Bush… - Behaviour research and …, 2003 - Elsevier
Formal diagnostic systems (DSM-IV, ICSD, and ICD-10) do not provide adequate
quantitative criteria to diagnose insomnia. This may not present a serious problem in clinical …

Mental fatigue, work and sleep

T Åkerstedt, A Knutsson, P Westerholm… - Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The study examined the multivariate relationship between mental fatigue and
different work-related (work load, work hours) and background/life style factors, as well as …

Fatigue in the general population: a translation and test of the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the fatigue severity scale

A Lerdal, AK Wahl, T Rustoen… - … journal of public …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: A study was undertaken to test the psychometric properties of the Fatigue Severity
Scale (FSS), and to explore the relationship between fatigue and sociodemographic …

Searching for the daytime impairments of primary insomnia

JA Shekleton, NL Rogers, SMW Rajaratnam - Sleep medicine reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Primary insomnia is a sleep disorder where the subjective complaint of initiating or
maintaining sleep, or the experience of sleep that is non-refreshing, cannot be directly …