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Despite emerging evidence from polysomnographic studies, large-scale subjective evaluations of sleep across the ET spectrum remain limited.\nObjectives: To assess the prevalence and severity of sleep disturbances in ET and ET-plus using validated sleep questionnaires, and to compare with healthy controls.\nMethods: This study was conducted at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, and included 100 patients (60 ET and 40 ET-plus) and 100 healthy controls. Tremor severity was assessed using TETRAS and FTMRS, and sleep symptoms with ESS, PSQI, Mayo Sleep Questionnaire, RLS-Q, BQ, GAD-7 and PHQ-9. Non-parametric tests and effect size estimations were used for group comparisons.\nResults: ET-plus patients were older and exhibited greater tremor severity than ET. Global PSQI scores differed significantly among ET and ET Plus vs controls (p &lt; 0.001), with ET-plus reporting the poorest sleep quality. ET and ET-plus demonstrated significantly higher ESS (p &lt; 0.001) and greater prevalence of probable RBD, RLS, and sleep apnea risk compared with controls. Tremor disability scores correlated with PSQI scores in ET-plus, suggesting an interaction between motor and non-motor burden.\nConclusions: Both ET and ET plus have significant sleep dysfunction with ET-plus patients showing markedly poorer sleep quality, higher daytime somnolence, and greater parasomnia prevalence than ET and controls. 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