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. 2015 Jul 30;2015:532831. doi: 10.1155/2015/532831

Table 2.

Results of t-test aimed on comparison of objective measures of sleepiness and sleep.

Season Winter either before or after treatment Summer
Condition Before After Remission
Group Patients Controls Patients Controls Patients Controls
Latency to stage 1 sleep (SL), min, on 20-min interval of napping attempt and baseline sleep
Daytime 17.4 ± 3.9 13.9 ± 5.3 15.3 ± 4.2 14.9 ± 4.8 14.1 ± 2.6 13.4 ± 4.7
Nighttime 14.2 ± 5.5 11.5 ± 4.0 13.4 ± 4.9 11.7 ± 4.0 12.6 ± 4.1 10.1 ± 5.4
Baseline 12.4 ± 7.7 9.4 ± 6.7 13.9 ± 6.0 6.3 ± 4.7 6.0 ± 5.9 2.8 ± 3.2

Baseline sleep
TST, min 483.5 ± 50.3 401.8 ± 68.0 469.9 ± 37.7 437.0 ± 36.5 478.8 ± 42.3 423.7 ± 47.6
SL, min 21.0 ± 23.3 9.4 ± 6.7 23.0 ± 17.5 6.3 ± 4.7 19.2 ± 17.4 12.0 ± 6.0
Wake, min 14.3 ± 5.4 21.6 ± 10.8 11.0 ± 6.6 8.5 ± 6.5 11.3 ± 2.9 36.2 ± 25.5
Stage 1, % 5.2 ± 1.4 7.2 ± 2.6 5.9 ± 1.6 3.6 ± 1.4 7.5 ± 3.8 5.8 ± 1.2
Stage 2, % 64.9 ± 6.0 60.9 ± 6.7 57.7 ± 6.1 64.5 ± 2.4 56.9 ± 9.5 59.9 ± 9.1
SWS, % 9.7 ± 4.9 14.8 ± 4.4 12.8 ± 4.4 12.6 ± 3.5 13.9 ± 9.8 15.1 ± 9.8
REM, % 20.2 ± 3.7 17.1 ± 3.8 23.6 ± 3.2 19.3 ± 2.4 21.7 ± 2.8 19.2 ± 4.9
SE, % 92.9 ± 5.5 92.5 ± 3.9 93.2 ± 3.1 96.7 ± 1.9 95.5 ± 2.1 89.7 ± 5.2

Notes. SL: Latency to onset of stage 1 sleep; Daytime: mean SL for 5 naps scheduled at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, and 18:00; Nighttime: mean SL for 4 naps at 23:00, 1:00, 3:00, and 5:00; Baseline: SL on the first 20-min interval of Baseline night sleep (light off at 23:00). See also Figure 1. Wake: wake time after sleep onset; sleep stages are given as percentage to Total Sleep Time (TST); SWS: slow wave sleep (stages 3 and 4 sleep); REM: Rapid Eye Movement sleep; SE: sleep efficiency expressed as percentage of sleep time in total bed time (i.e., TST plus total wake time). Level of significance for difference between patients and controls: (p < 0.05).