Table 5.
Category | Insomnia (%) | Normal Sleeper (%) | χ2 (1) |
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Evening/Night time variables | |||
Awakenings in the night | 88 | 89 | 0.02 |
Total sleep time | 76 | 71 | 0.14 |
Sleep Onset Latency | 60 | 61 | 0.00 |
Sleeping “well” or “badly” | 52 | 79 | 4.16* |
Anxiety and worry and mood in the night | 48 | 32 | 1.39 |
Restless sleep | 36 | 43 | 0.26 |
Dreams | 28 | 39 | 0.75 |
Body Sensations, e.g. pain, hunger, thirst, comfort | 28 | 29 | 0.00 |
Need for sleep on the basis of quality of sleep on recent nights | 28 | 18 | 0.78 |
Tiredness | 20 | 14 | 0.31 |
Time of getting into bed | 16 | 25 | 0.65 |
Use of substances (e.g., alcohol, drugs, caffeine) | 4 | 7 | 0.24 |
Expectation last night of how sleep would be | 4 | 0 | 1.14 |
Activity the previous day | 0 | 11 | 2.84 |
Setting/context (e.g. whose bed, bed partner) | 0 | 7 | 1.86 |
Monitoring (e.g. clock-watching) | 0 | 7 | 1.86 |
Physiological arousal in the night | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Daytime variables | |||
Tiredness on waking and throughout the day | 84 | 71 | 1.19 |
Feeling rested, restored, refreshed, replenished | 68 | 68 | 0.00 |
Time of waking in the morning | 64 | 36 | 4.23* |
Body sensations on waking and during the day | 44 | 14 | 5.75* |
Motivation to get up or sleep in the morning | 32 | 50 | 1.76 |
Alertness, clear-headedness, ability to concentrate | 32 | 25 | 0.32 |
Mood/emotion/anxiety on waking | 28 | 25 | 0.06 |
Feelings of energy/lethargy | 12 | 14 | 0.06 |
Inability to go back to sleep on final awakening | 12 | 7 | 0.37 |
Alarm/natural awakening | 8 | 29 | 3.65 |
Expectation of sleep's impact on day | 8 | 0 | 2.32 |
Non-specific feeling ‘good’ or ‘bad’ | 4 | 25 | 4.55* |
Performance level and efficiency | 4 | 0 | 1.14 |
Coordination and balance | 4 | 0 | 1.14 |
Memory of sleep | 0 | 7 | 1.86 |
Level of light when wake up | 0 | 4 | 0.91 |
Physiological arousal in the day | 0 | 4 | 0.91 |
Level of sociability | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Coping strategies (e.g., coffee, naps) | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Ease or difficulty of staying awake | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Appearance on waking | 0 | 0 | N/A |
P < 0.01