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Original article| Volume 96, ISSUE 3, P478-483, March 2015

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Comparison of Self-Report Sleep Measures for Individuals With Multiple Sclerosis and Spinal Cord Injury

Published:October 23, 2014DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2014.10.001

      Abstract

      Objective

      To investigate self-report measures of sleep disturbances and sleep-related impairments in samples of individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) or spinal cord injury (SCI).

      Design

      Cross-sectional survey.

      Setting

      Community based.

      Participants

      Adults (age ≥18y) (N=700) with either MS (n=461) or SCI (n=239) who were enrolled in a longitudinal survey of self-reported health outcomes and who completed self-report sleep measures at 1 time point.

      Interventions

      None.

      Main Outcome Measures

      Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale (MOS-S), Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) sleep disturbance short form, and PROMIS sleep-related impairments short form.

      Results

      Mean scores on the MOS-S sleep index II were significantly worse for both the MS and SCI samples than those of previously reported samples representative of the U.S. general population (P<.0001 for each group). The PROMIS sleep disturbance short form and PROMIS sleep-related impairments short form scores of the MS sample were also significantly different from those reported for the calibration cohort (P<.0001 on each scale). However, although the scores of the SCI sample were significantly different from those of the comparison cohort for the PROMIS sleep-related impairments short form (P=.045), the differences on the PROMIS sleep disturbance short form were not significant (P=.069).

      Conclusions

      Although the MOS-S scores for the MS and SCI cohorts clearly indicated significantly high levels of sleep-related problems and were consistent with existing literature, the more ambiguous findings from the PROMIS sleep disturbance short form and PROMIS sleep-related impairments short form suggest that not enough is currently known about how these instruments function when applied to those with chronic neurologic dysfunction.

      Keywords

      List of abbreviations:

      MOS-S (Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale), MS (multiple sclerosis), PROMIS (Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System), SCI (spinal cord injury)
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