Clinical Study

Armodafinil versus Modafinil in Patients of Excessive Sleepiness Associated with Shift Work Sleep Disorder: A Randomized Double Blind Multicentric Clinical Trial

Table 1


Diagnostic criteria for SWSD (adopted from ICSD criteria)3

(A) The patient has a primary complaint of insomnia or excessive sleepiness.
(B) The primary complaint is temporally associated with a work period (usually night work) that occurs during the habitual sleep phase.
(C) No medical or mental disorder accounts for the symptoms.
(D) The symptoms do not meet criteria for any other sleep disorder producing insomnia or excessive sleepiness (e.g., time-zone change (jet lag) syndrome).
Minimal criteria: A plus B.