Development of the Nightmare Intervention and Treatment Evaluation (NITE) Scale

Donovan, Beverly; Padin-Rivera, Edgardo; Chapman, Heather; Strauss, Milton E.; Murray, Megan

doi:10.1300/j189v03n03_03

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“…Nightmares. A six-item posttraumatic nightmare questionnaire, partly drawn from the Nightmare Intervention and Treatment Evaluation Scale (NITE; Donovan, Padin-Rivera, Chapman, Strauss, & Murray, 2005), was used. Participants were posed the first question of the NITE, that is, to "think of a nightmare that you keep having that bothers you very much.…”

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Association of posttraumatic nightmares and psychopathology in a military sample.

Dassel

Wittmann

Protić

et al. 2018

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Association of posttraumatic nightmares and psychopathology in a military sample.

Dassel

Wittmann

Protić

et al. 2018

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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“…In a second section, 35 items elicit the effects of nightmares on the areas of emotion regulation, stress and aggression, depression, attention/concentration, anxiety and hyperactivity. Donovan, Padin-Rivera, Chapman, Strauss, and Murray (2005) developed the Nightmare Intervention & Treatment Evaluation Scale (NITE) with the goal of a detailed analysis of the effects of posttraumatic nightmares and the impact of interventions. Since the NITE scale was developed working with American veterans with a PTSD diagnosis and has been shown to be reliable in this patient group, it was translated into German in a preliminary study (Timmann, 2012) adding three items according to the nightmare criteria of the ICD-10 (WHO, 2004) and International Classification of Sleep Disorders 2 (ICSD-2; Happe & Walther, 2009;Mayer, Rodenbeck, Geisler, & Schulz, 2015).…”

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Psychometric evaluation of the Hamburg Nightmare Questionnaire (HNQ)

Gorzka¹,

Rebling²,

Höllmer³

et al. 2019

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Nightmares are a widespread phenomenon. In comparison to the general population, they occur in mentally ill and especially in traumatized individuals with an increased frequency. Despite the high prevalence, there is no short questionnaire in the German language that is able to characterize nightmares, to differentiate between different nightmare types and to assess their impact on daytime functioning. Objective: The Hamburg Nightmare Questionnaire (HNQ) has been developed as a short self-rating instrument to fill this gap. Method: Psychometric characteristics of the HNQ were evaluated in a sample of 707 German soldiers passing through the standard diagnostics of the Center for Mental Health at the German Armed Forces Hospital Hamburg. Results: The results of this study show satisfactory psychometric characteristics as a sound factorial structure and adequate internal consistency for the HNQ as well as initial indications of the construct validity of its subscales. Conclusions: The HNQ is a reliable and economic tool for the assessment of posttraumatic nightmares in clinical as well as research settings.

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“…Reports of recurrent nightmares were collected by means of one item from the Nightmare Intervention and Treatment Evaluation Scale (Donovan et al, 2005, p. 64): “Think of a nightmare that you keep having that bothers you very much. This could be the nightmare you would most like to stop having.…”

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Characterizing veterans’ dreams applying the Zurich dream process coding system.

Wittmann¹,

Kempe²,

Anstadt³

et al. 2022

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To contribute to the characterization of nightmares in trauma survivors, the Zurich Dream Process Coding System was used to analyze reports of recurrent nightmares from 27 German soldiers with a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress or adjustment disorder who had been admitted to a trauma-related treatment program. Applying a previously developed set of 8 markers of affect regulation during dreaming, a consistent picture of central features emerged. The majority of dream reports were characterized by an abrupt overwhelming beginning, passivity of the dream ego, absence of or failing of trials to leave this passive position by means of interactions or locomotion, absence of or failing of metacognitions and metarelations, as well as a sudden ending and resulting on-off-character of the dreams. These findings are interpreted as indicative of a specific dysfunction in the affect regulation of individuals suffering from trauma-related psychopathology.

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Development of the Nightmare Intervention and Treatment Evaluation (NITE) Scale

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Association of posttraumatic nightmares and psychopathology in a military sample.

Association of posttraumatic nightmares and psychopathology in a military sample.

Psychometric evaluation of the Hamburg Nightmare Questionnaire (HNQ)

Characterizing veterans’ dreams applying the Zurich dream process coding system.

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