title: Nightmare prevalence in the healthy elderly.
abstract: Fifty-one healthy elderly subjects (median age = 65) gave retrospective estimates of nightmare frequency in questionnaires and recorded the occurrence of nightmares in daily logs over a 2-week period. (a) Mean annual nightmare frequency as estimated from logs was only 65% as high among college student controls. (b) Elderly subjects were about 1/5 as likely as college students to report a problem with nightmares. (c) Frequency estimates on the basis of logs were over 10 times higher than retrospective estimates.
authors.affiliation: University of Arizona, Tucson.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Salvio
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Eichling
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001130:Arizona / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004325:Dreams; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012928:Social Desirability