Self-reported sleep disturbance as a prodromal symptom in recurrent depression
Self-reported sleep disturbance as a prodromal symptom in recurrent depression
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DOI:
10.1016/s0165-0327(96)01411-5
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发表时间:
1997-02-01
影响因子:
6.6
通讯作者:
Kupfer, DJ
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作者:
Perlis, ML;Giles, DE;Kupfer, DJ
1. Introduction without sleep-related insomnia complaints (Breslau et al., 1996). Sleep disturbance, when compared to The complaint of sleep disturbance has always other depressive symptoms, accounted for about 60% been a defining feature of mood disorders. This of the predicted variance. complaint, which has traditionally been considered While it is clear from the epidemiologic studies only a symptom of depression, may actually occur that sleep disturbance may represent a vulnerability prior to, and presage, the development of the full factor for the development of depression, it is not clinical syndrome. Recently, three major epi- clear whether sleep disturbance varies in relation to demiologic studies have provided data that suggest clinical course. What is not clear from the previous that insomnia is a risk factor for depression. In the studies is (1) whether sleep disturbance becomes first, patients with persistent insomnia complaints worse immediately prior to the onset of an acute were found to be three times more likely to develop depressive episode and/or (2) whether remission depression within a one year interval than patients from acute episodes is preceded or paralleled by without persistent insomnia (Ford and Kamerow, improved sleep. In the present study, we evaluated 1989). In the second, four depressive symptoms the longitudinal course of remitted patients in order were, over the course of a year measurement inter- to determine whether insomnia complaints precede val, found to be associated with the development of the development of the full depressive clinical new episodes of depression. The four symptoms syndrome. were disturbed sleep, increased guilt and decreased concentration and libido (Dryman and Eaton, 1991). Sleep disturbance, however, only predicted new 2. Subjects and methods episodes in women. In the third, gender-adjusted relative risk for new onset of major depression was Data for the present study were obtained from a four times greater for subjects with a lifetime history larger study on the treatment efficacy of Interpersonof two weeks or more of insomnia than subjects al Therapy (IPT) and the importance of social zietgebers in maintaining remission (Buysse et al.,* Corresponding author. 1992). All subjects participating in the IPT and