TABLE 1.
Poor sleepers (PS) |
Good sleepers (GS) |
p-value |
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Male | Female | Male | Female | Sleep quality | Gender | Sleep quality × Gender | |
Number of participants | 57 | 62 | 77 | 43 | 0.011* | NA | NA |
Age (years) | 65.88 (6.13) | 65.10 (5.24) | 65.99 (5.51) | 64.72 (5.59) | 0.85 | 0.17 | 0.74 |
Education (years) | 9.89 (1.93) | 9.71 (1.81) | 10.01 (2.14) | 9.74 (1.85) | 0.65 | 0.30 | 0.99 |
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) | 11.56 (1.44) | 12.42 (2.01) | 5.09 (0.88) | 5.02 (0.80) | NA | 0.032* | NA |
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) | 7.20 (5.91) | 6.77 (3.8) | 3.84 (2.51) | 5.65 (3.77) | <0.001* | 0.20 | 0.039* |
Habitual intake of coffee (cups) | 4.76 (0.74) | 4.47 (1.03) | 4.86 (0.64) | 4.36 (1.28) | 0.98 | 0.003* | 0.42 |
Physical activity (hours/week) | 3.53 (2.68) | 3.13 (2.63) | 4.43 (5.73) | 5.07 (4.44) | 0.005* | 0.98 | 0.24 |
Body Mass Index (BMI) | 26.46 (3.71) | 28.61 (5.54) | 27.27 (5.76) | 25.88 (4.29) | 0.84 | 0.27 | 0.31 |
Total Intracranial Volume (mm3) | 1,556,080 (111,287) | 1,375,386 (87,567) | 1,390,511 (83,202) | 15,658,825 (111,360) | 0.35 | <0.001* | 0.84 |
Current stress levels (Kurzfragebogen zur aktuellen Beanspruchung, KAB1) | 26.75 (6.09) | 28.61 (5.88) | 23.81 (5.94) | 26.47 (5.97) | 0.001* | 0.005* | 0.61 |
Current stress levels (Kurzfragebogen zur aktuellen Beanspruchung, KAB2) | 26.44 (5.63) | 28.90 (6.58) | 23.30 (5.74) | 25.98 (5.71) | <0.001* | 0.001* | 0.89 |
Trail Making Test (part A, TMT-A) | 39.22 (12.52) | 42.26 (16.09) | 39.02 (12.38) | 38.32 (11.98) | 0.24 | 0.51 | 0.29 |
Selective attention task (Alters-Konzentrations-Test, AKT) | 34.08 (10.22) | 34.56 (8.26) | 32.62 (7.79) | 35.03 (9.09) | 0.67 | 0.21 | 0.41 |
Visual pattern (VPT, Juelich version) | 8.18 (1.76) | 6.77 (1.43) | 8.40 (1.73) | 6.88 (1.61) | 0.44 | <0.001* | 0.79 |
Verbal working memory (Zahlennachsprechen, ZNS) | 11 (2.05) | 10.63 (1.59) | 10.71 (1.70) | 10.42 (1.72) | 0.29 | 0.16 | 0.87 |
Corsi Block-Tapping-Test (CBT) | 10.33 (1.66) | 9.85 (1.35) | 10.56 (1.72) | 10.12 (1.48) | 0.24 | 0.03* | 0.93 |
Abbreviations: NA, not applicable. *Significant level at p < 0.05 level.