Insomnia: Comorbidities from the Field of Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry in a Sample of an Interdisciplinary Center for Sleep Medicine
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5283/pf.10Keywords:
insomnia, comorbidity, interdisciplinary approachAbstract
In this study comorbidity of insomnia and other relevant diagnoses from the field of sleep medicine and psychiatry was analysed. For this purpose relevant diagnoses from physician´s letters of an interdisciplinary department of sleep medicine were documented in a sample of 102 patients with insomnia. Insomnia showed the highest comorbidity with depressive disorders (50%) followed by sleep related breathing disorders (17.6 – 37.3%) and sleep related movement disorders (12.7 – 21.5%). In case of subjectively reported insomnia symptom-atology this result indicates a profound diagnostic investigation with polysomnographic sleep recording and psychiatric exploration as a matter of clinical routine.
Downloads
Published
2010-06-13
Issue
Section
Supplementbeitrag