Table 2.

Measures of Sleepiness, Quality, and Quantity of Recent Sleep and Risk of Injury

Case-Crossover AnalysesCase-Control Analyses
Self-perceived sleepiness at injury or matched time
    Per unit on a 0-to-12 scale0.78 (0.75 to 0.81)0.74 (0.72 to 0.77)
    Dichotomous: >0 vs 00.47 (0.39 to 0.55)0.27 (0.23 to 0.33)
    Trichotomous: 1 to 3 vs 00.60 (0.50 to 0.72)0.48 (0.39 to 0.59)
        4 to 12 vs 00.24 (0.18 to 0.30)0.14 (0.11 to 0.17)
Usual Sleep
    Quality (per point on a 5-point ordinal scale)Because these variables address longer-term constructs, only case-control analyses are possible.1.04 (0.98 to 1.10)
    Quantity (per hour)0.98 (0.94 to 1.03)
    Quantity in past 7 days compared with your usual (per point on a 5-point ordinal scale)0.97 (0.90 to 1.05)
    Quality in past 7 days compared with your usual (per point on a 5-point ordinal scale)0.88 (0.80 to 0.97)
Sleep in past 48 hours
    Sleep in past 24 hours compared with the 24 hours before that, per hour1.06 (1.03 to 1.09)Data not available from control group.
    Last episode of sleep compared with the previous one, per hour1.01 (0.98 to 1.04)
    Trichotomous, past 24 hours compared with previous 24 hours
        Less than 5 hours compared with 5 to 9 hours0.88 (0.68 to 1.13)
        10 hours or more compared with 5 to 9 hours1.28 (1.07 to 1.55)
    Sleep in past 24 hours compared with usual quantity (per hour)1.29 (1.24 to 1.34)
  • ORs (95% CI).