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Sleep Quality and Mental Health Symptoms in Emergency Medical Service Personnel

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Bryce Hruska, Syracuse University

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Project Citation:

Hruska, Bryce. Sleep Quality and Mental Health Symptoms in Emergency Medical Service Personnel. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-01-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E208225V1

Project Description

Summary: The objective of this project was to examine the relationship between sleep quality and mental health outcomes (posttraumatic stress disorder, depression) among n = 79 emergency medical service clinicians (i.e., ambulance service providers). Although data were collected each day for 8 consecutive days in the raw data set, the data set included in this deposit is aggregated by age group to protect confidentiality.

Funding Sources: David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: sleep quality; PTSD; depression

Geographic Coverage: Northeastern US Census Region

Time Period(s): 6/5/2019 – 8/11/2019 (Summer 2019)

Collection Date(s): 6/5/2019 – 8/11/2019

Universe: Emergency medical service clinicians (i.e., ambulance service providers)

Data Type(s): aggregate data; survey data

Methodology

Scales: Consensus Sleep Diary – Sleep Quality Item (Carney et al., 2012)

Likert-type scale: 0 = “Very poor”, 1 = “Poor”, 2 = “Fair”, 3 = “Good”, 4 = “Very good”

Carney, C. E., Buysse, D. J., Ancoli-Israel, S., Edinger, J. D., Krystal, A. D., Lichstein, K. L., & Morin, C. M. (2012). The Consensus Sleep Diary: Standardizing Prospective Sleep Self-Monitoring. Sleep, 35(2), 287–302. https://doi.org/10.5665/sleep.1642

Short-Form PTSD Checklist (Price et al., 2016)

Likert-type scale: 0 "Not at all", 1 "A little bit", 2 "Moderately", 4 "Quite a bit", 5 "Extremely"

Price, M., Szafranski, D. D., van Stolk-Cooke, K., & Gros, D. F. (2016). Investigation of abbreviated 4 and 8 item versions of the PTSD Checklist 5. Psychiatry Research, 239, 124–130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.03.014

Mental Health Inventory-Depression Scale (Cuijpers et al., 2009)

Likert-type scale: 1 “All of the time”, 2 “Most of the time”, 3 “A good bit of the time”, 4 “Some of the time”, 5 “A little of the time”, 6 “None of the time.” NOTE: These items were reverse-coded before being summed to create an overall measure of depression. This was done so that higher scores would indicate more severe depression symptom severity.

Cuijpers, P., Smits, N., Donker, T., ten Have, M., & de Graaf, R. (2009). Screening for mood and anxiety disorders with the five-item, the three-item, and the two-item Mental Health Inventory. Psychiatry Research, 168(3), 250–255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2008.05.012

Unit(s) of Observation: Age group

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