Insomnia in an 80‐year‐old population: Relationship to medical, psychological and social factors

In this study, insomnia in 80‐year‐olds was related to medical, psychological and social factors. The data were based on examinations every year in people aged between 80 and 89 years. Of 333 people living in the city of Lund and born in 1908, 67% participated. Increased severity of insomnia was sig...

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Published inJournal of sleep research Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 183 - 189
Main Authors JENSEN, ELMO, DEHLIN, O., HAGBERG, B., SAMUELSSON, G., SVENSSON, T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Ltd 01.09.1998
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Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Annan medicin och hälsovetenskap
Arbetsterapi
Cohort Studies
depression
Depressive Disorder - diagnosis
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Gerontologi, medicinsk/hälsovetenskaplig inriktning
Gerontology, specializing in Medical and Health Sciences
Health Sciences
Humans
Hälsovetenskap
insomnia
Internal-External Control
Longitudinal Studies
Medical and Health Sciences
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Occupational Therapy
Other Medical Sciences
Psychological Tests
psychology
Quality of Life
Severity of Illness Index
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - diagnosis
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - etiology
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - psychology
Sleep, REM - physiology
sociology
survival
Wakefulness
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Summary:In this study, insomnia in 80‐year‐olds was related to medical, psychological and social factors. The data were based on examinations every year in people aged between 80 and 89 years. Of 333 people living in the city of Lund and born in 1908, 67% participated. Increased severity of insomnia was significantly associated with use of diuretics, other cardiovascular drugs, hypnotics and laxatives, and with nervousness, difficulty relaxing, anorexia, nausea, constipation, backache, feeling cold, sweating, loss of weight, dizziness, depression, general fatigue, exhaustion, angina pectoris, cardiac insufficiency, worsened objective and subjective health, presence of negative T‐waves on ECG, anxiety, total life satisfaction, neuroticism, disbelief in a just world, feeling lonely and lower survival rates. Thus insomnia has widespread associations with different aspects of life in 80‐year‐olds.
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ISSN:0962-1105
1365-2869
1365-2869
DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2869.1998.00118.x