Discrepancy between objective and subjective measurements of sleep quality: the role of panic-agoraphobic spectrum

Abstract

Introduction There is evidence that anxiety and depressive symptoms may lead individuals to under-estimate their own sleep quality, particularly among younger subjects (aged 85% as a measure of good SE. Regression analyses were conducted to assess the association between PAS-SR domains and the discrepancy between objective and subjective measurements, controlling confounding factors such as age, gender and BMI Results Since our data showed that a low sleep quality was associated with a greater age and that higher PAS-SR scores were associated with younger age, we used a sub-sample of 117 participants with age <45 years and comparing the 3 groups of subjects created on the basis of the discrepancy: Accurate, N = 74 (63.2 %), “Overestimate group”, N= 23 (19.7 %), “Underestimate group”: N=20 (17.1 %), we found a statistically significant difference among groups in the PAS.SR separation anxiety domain (p value=0.032), with a multinomial regression model confirming this domain contributed significantly to the differentiation between the three groups with higher symptoms being associated with a higher probability of belonging to the “underestimate” group. Conclusions Our results suggest that the discrepancy between objective and subjective sleep efficiency measurements in HCs could be affected by panic spectrum symptoms, particularly separation anxiety. Disclosure of Interest None Declared