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Daytime Sleepiness and Sleep Habits of Australian Workers
Abstract
Excessive daytime sleepiness in the general community is a newly recognized problem about which there is little standardized information. Our aim was to measure the levels of daytime sleepiness and the prevalence of excessive daytime sleepiness in a sample of Australian workers and to relate that to their self-reported sleep habits at night and to their age, sex, and obesity. Sixty-five percent of all 507 employees working during the day for a branch of an Australian corporation answered a sleep questionnaire and the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS) anonymously. Normal sleepers, without any evidence of a sleep disorder, had ESS scores between 0 and 10, with a mean of 4.6 +/- 2.8 (standard deviation). They were clearly separated from the "sleepy" patients suffering from narcolepsy or idiopathic hypersomnia whose ESS scores were in the range 12-24, as described previously. ESS scores > 10 were taken to represent excessive daytime sleepiness, the prevalence of which was 10.9%. This was not related significantly to age (22-59 years), sex, obesity, or the use of hypnotic drugs but was related significantly but weakly to sleep-disordered breathing (frequency of snoring and apneas), the presence of insomnia, and reduced time spent in bed (insufficient sleep).
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Metadata
- Authors
- Johns, M., & Hocking, B.
- Venue
- Sleep
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1997-10
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 844-847
- ISSN
- 0161-8105 (ISSN-L)
- 1550-9109
- OpenAlex
- W82338283
- Cited by
- 509
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 12.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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