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Heterogeneity of sleep quality based on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in a community sample: a latent class analysis

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This study aims to assess the latent dimensional structure of sleep quality as measured by seven components of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and evaluate its diagnostic utility in discriminating individual differences on circadian preferences. Three hundred sixty-seven subjects, aged 17–58 years (mean 22.3 ± 6.3) and 55% female, participated in the study. The PSQI and Morningness–Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ) were administered, and latent class analysis was run to assess latent homogeneous subgroups according to seven components of the PSQI. Latent class analysis revealed that sleep quality is multifaceted, and data distribution fits best to two-class model. About two-thirds of the subjects (n = 289) were classified into poor sleep quality class and 78 participants were grouped into good sleep quality class. A PSQI total ≥5 was identified as the cut-off value for an optimal discrimination between these two latent classes. Three-step regression analysis did not demonstrate a significant relationship between circadian preferences and sleep quality. Finally, signal detection analysis showed that the PSQI total cut-off value had low diagnostic utility with respect to the individual variation in circadian preferences. Sleep quality is a distinct psychological construct from circadian preferences. Sleep problems were prevalent in the study population and developmentally sensitive sleep programs are required.

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Yildirim, A., Boysan, M. Heterogeneity of sleep quality based on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in a community sample: a latent class analysis. Sleep Biol. Rhythms 15, 197–205 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41105-017-0097-7

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