Psychosocial aspects of insomnia: Results of a study in general practice

Christoph Käppler; Fritz Hohagen

doi:10.1007/s00406-003-0406-9

Psychosocial aspects of insomnia: Results of a study in general practice

Christoph Käppler, Fritz Hohagen^*

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Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

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Abstract

The relationship between insomnia and psychosocial factors is focused only in few epidemiological studies. Furthermore, most of them do not control for the mutual interdependencies of variables like age, sex, psychosocial distress and somatic or psychiatric disorders in their relation to insomnia. From a sample of general practice attendants, 516 patients with different grades of insomnia diagnosed according to DSM criteria were selected. Logistic regression analysis revealed seven psychosocial factors with independent predictive value for the occurrence of insomnia: increased age, conflicts with relatives, professional overload, housekeeping overload, illness of relatives, social and psychiatric status. Based on such a risk profile, in more than 2/3 of the cases the presence of insomnia can be predicted correctly. Consequences for diagnostic training and multimodal treatment programs are suggested.

Original language	English
Journal	European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Volume	253
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	49-52
Number of pages	4
ISSN	0940-1334
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-003-0406-9
Publication status	Published - 01.02.2003

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