Sleep Quality and Mental Health Symptoms in Emergency Medical Service Personnel

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) E. Kate Webb , Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University; Mariel Emrich, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut; Emily E. Patton, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University; Shengzi Zeng, Harvard University. Harvard Medical School; Enzo Plaitano, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Dartmouth College; Maria Pacella-LaBarbara, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh; Bryce Hruska, Department of Public Health, Syracuse University

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Project Citation: 

Webb , E. Kate, Emrich, Mariel, Patton, Emily E., Zeng, Shengzi, Plaitano, Enzo, Pacella-LaBarbara, Maria, and 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], 2025-01-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/E208225V3

Project Description

Summary:  View help for 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:  View help for Funding Sources David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms sleep quality; PTSD; depression
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Northeastern US Census Region
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 6/5/2019 – 8/11/2019 (Summer 2019)
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 6/5/2019 – 8/11/2019
Universe:  View help for Universe Emergency medical service clinicians (i.e., ambulance service providers)
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data; survey data

Methodology

Scales:  View help for 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:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Age group

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