Clinical Study

Rotigotine Objectively Improves Sleep in Parkinson’s Disease: An Open-Label Pilot Study with Actigraphic Recording

Table 3

Nocturnal actigraphic results before (T0) and during (T1) rotigotine treatment in 10 patients with sleep efficiency 85% at T0.

ScaleT0T1

SL (min)47 (23–66)24 (7–40)0.241
TST (min)343 (289–373)330 (286–397)0.508
SE (%)68 (51–82)73 (69–83)0.017
WASO (min)147 (114–215)109 (81–152)0.013
Number of wake episodes20 (19–22)21 (16–28)0.646
Mean duration of wake episodes (min)11 (8–14)7 (5–9)0.005
ACmean47 (36–69)35 (28–44)0.005
ACmedian11 (5–30)8 (0–17)0.028
ACindex64 (50–79)65 (43–73)0.114

SL = sleep latency; min = minutes; TST = total sleep time; SE = sleep efficiency; WASO = wake after sleep onset; ACmean = activity mean score; ACmedian = activity median score; ACindex = activity index. Data are expressed as median (25th–75th percentiles). = .