Feigning daytime sleepiness: potential effects on the psychomotor vigilance test.
Feigning daytime sleepiness: potential effects on the psychomotor vigilance test.
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假装白天困倦:对精神运动警惕性测试的潜在影响。
DOI:
10.1093/sleep/zsad203
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发表时间:
2023
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影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
Trotti,LynnMarie
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作者:
Mariano,Christianna;Moron,Danielle;Maness,Caroline;Olvera,Victoria;Saini,Prabhjyot;Rye,DavidB;Bliwise,DonaldL;Trotti,LynnMarie
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a multi-faceted construct that can be quantified with a variety of self-report questionnaires and objective tests. The conventional approach to validate a patient’s subjective report of EDS involves an objective measure such as the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) or Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT). While these tests often provide corroborating evidence of sleepiness, they may be expensive, time-consuming, difficult to perform, and have poor test–retest reliability [1, 2]. Additionally, a shared limitation of nearly all tools that aim to quantify EDS is that their validity is reliant on earnest cooperation on the part of the patient. Participants motivated to shorten or lengthen their sleep latency on MSLT or MWT may be able to do so [3, 4].In view of these issues with objective assessment of daytime sleepiness, there has been an upsurge in the clinical application of the Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT)[5], a relatively brief procedure well-validated in experimental protocols [6, 7]. Studies to date suggest that PVT has utility in characterizing impaired cognitive performance in hypersomnolent patients [7–9]. Specifically, hypersomnolent patients perform significantly worse than nonsleepy controls on measures of mean and median reaction time, reciprocal of reaction time (RRT), lapses of at least 500 milliseconds, and RRT of the fastest and slowest 10% of responses [7]. Additionally, the slope of RRT over time (ie linear regression slope of RRT on trial minute) shows significantly more time-ontask worsening for the hypersomnolent group than for controls [7]. In this brief report, we explored to what extent a PVT performance profile might serve to differentiate hypersomnolent patients from normal subjects instructed to feign drowsiness. In order to mirror the age distribution of the clinical population of CDH patients presenting at our center, we recruited healthy young adults (n= 16) from the community to serve as controls. They were instructed on the use of the 10-minute, handheld PVT device, and performed a 1-minute practice demonstration prior to testing. They were then told to try to make their PVT results appear as though they were sleepy, without any further instructions on how to achieve this. All participants performed the PVT