Dimensions of psychological stress predicting insomnia and sleep and wakefulness disorders in a sample of headache patients

The current study aimed to know the contribution of psychological stress dimensions in predicting insomnia and sleep-wake schedule disorders in a sample of headache patients; The sample included (75) headache patients (migraine - tension - cluster) in the age range of (20: 47) years, with an average age of (31.9) and a standard deviation of (6.5), who were selected from headache patients visiting the headache clinic at Demerdash University Hospital in Cairo, and the Erada Center for Psychiatry and Addiction Treatment in Qena and Luxor Governorates. The psychological stress scale prepared by the researcher was applied to them, and the insomnia disorder and sleep-wake schedule scales prepared by (Mohamed Abdel-Sabour, 2021). The results showed a positive relationship between the dimensions of psychological stress and their total score and insomnia disorder. The results also revealed a relationship between (health, family, economic stress, and the total degree of stress) and sleep-wake schedule disorder. On the other hand, the results did not show a relationship between professional stress and sleep-wake schedule disorder; On the other hand, the results did not show any differences in the study variables (dimensions of psychological stress, insomnia disorder, sleep-wake schedule disorder) according to gender, age, job type, or headache type, except for family stress, where the differences were in favor of cluster headache patients. Finally, the study showed that the dimensions of psychological stress and their total sum contribute to predicting insomnia and sleep-wake schedule disorders, except for the occupational stress dimension, which did not contribute to predicting sleep-wake schedule disorder.