PHRM 3820 Sleep Disorders Questions with Correct Answers (Grade
A+)
Question 1: What is the second most common patient complaint?
Answer: insomnia
Question 2: What is the recommended amount of sleep per night?
Answer: 8h
Question 3: What percent of Americans experience problems sleeping at least a couple of nights per
week?
Answer: 64%
Question 4: How does sleep affect the morbidity and mortality rates from general medical and
psychiatric disorders?
Answer: insomnia negatively impacts the outcomes
Question 5: How can sleep be categorized into stages?
Answer: electroencephalogram (EEG)
Question 6: What are the 5 stages of sleep?
Answer: Stage 1: transitional, falling asleep Stage 2: light sleep (50% of sleep time) Stage 3 and 4: deep or
delta sleep (slow-frequency waves) REM: neither light nor dark, increased high frequency waves
Question 7: REM sleep
Answer: rapid eye movement - eyes are moving rapidly from side to side - skeletal muscle movement is
inhibited - increase in physiologic activities (BP, HR, temp, RR, metabolism)
Question 8: Which stage of sleep is the transitional phase?
Answer: stage 1 - falling asleep
Question 9: Which stage of sleep is light sleep?
Answer: stage 2
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, Question 10: Which stage of sleep is deep/delta sleep?
Answer: stages 3 and 4
Question 11: Which stage of sleep has an increase in physiologic activities?
Answer: REM
Question 12: How long is the sleep cycle?
Answer: 70-120min
Question 13: What happens when the sleep cycle repeats multiple times?
Answer: each REM period is longer and the time spent is deep sleep is shorter
Question 14: What are the consequences of prolonged suppression of REM sleep?
Answer: psychological and behavioral changes - anxiety, irritability, difficulty concentrating
Question 15: REM latency
Answer: the time between falling asleep and the first REM period, 70-90min
Question 16: How long is the first REM period?
Answer: 5-7 minutes
Question 17: How does our sleep psychology change as we get older?
Answer: total duration of sleep is shorter number of nocturnal awakenings increases less time in stage 4 and
REM sleep latency stays the same
Question 18: What are the 3 characteristics of insomnia?
Answer: - trouble falling asleep or staying asleep - waking up early and cannot go back to sleep - not feeling
refreshed after sleeping
Question 19: transient insomnia
Answer: <1wk, usually self-limiting due to travel, hospitalization, anticipation of stressful event
Question 20: short-term insomnia
Answer: 1-3wks death of loved one, divorce, recovery from surgery
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A+)
Question 1: What is the second most common patient complaint?
Answer: insomnia
Question 2: What is the recommended amount of sleep per night?
Answer: 8h
Question 3: What percent of Americans experience problems sleeping at least a couple of nights per
week?
Answer: 64%
Question 4: How does sleep affect the morbidity and mortality rates from general medical and
psychiatric disorders?
Answer: insomnia negatively impacts the outcomes
Question 5: How can sleep be categorized into stages?
Answer: electroencephalogram (EEG)
Question 6: What are the 5 stages of sleep?
Answer: Stage 1: transitional, falling asleep Stage 2: light sleep (50% of sleep time) Stage 3 and 4: deep or
delta sleep (slow-frequency waves) REM: neither light nor dark, increased high frequency waves
Question 7: REM sleep
Answer: rapid eye movement - eyes are moving rapidly from side to side - skeletal muscle movement is
inhibited - increase in physiologic activities (BP, HR, temp, RR, metabolism)
Question 8: Which stage of sleep is the transitional phase?
Answer: stage 1 - falling asleep
Question 9: Which stage of sleep is light sleep?
Answer: stage 2
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, Question 10: Which stage of sleep is deep/delta sleep?
Answer: stages 3 and 4
Question 11: Which stage of sleep has an increase in physiologic activities?
Answer: REM
Question 12: How long is the sleep cycle?
Answer: 70-120min
Question 13: What happens when the sleep cycle repeats multiple times?
Answer: each REM period is longer and the time spent is deep sleep is shorter
Question 14: What are the consequences of prolonged suppression of REM sleep?
Answer: psychological and behavioral changes - anxiety, irritability, difficulty concentrating
Question 15: REM latency
Answer: the time between falling asleep and the first REM period, 70-90min
Question 16: How long is the first REM period?
Answer: 5-7 minutes
Question 17: How does our sleep psychology change as we get older?
Answer: total duration of sleep is shorter number of nocturnal awakenings increases less time in stage 4 and
REM sleep latency stays the same
Question 18: What are the 3 characteristics of insomnia?
Answer: - trouble falling asleep or staying asleep - waking up early and cannot go back to sleep - not feeling
refreshed after sleeping
Question 19: transient insomnia
Answer: <1wk, usually self-limiting due to travel, hospitalization, anticipation of stressful event
Question 20: short-term insomnia
Answer: 1-3wks death of loved one, divorce, recovery from surgery
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