Nightmare prevalence in the healthy elderly.
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.
Salvio
M A
MA
University of Arizona, Tucson.
Wood
J M
JM
Schwartz
J
J
Eichling
P S
PS
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