Insomnia
@article{Wilson2008Insomnia, title={Insomnia}, author={Jennifer Fisher Wilson}, journal={The Hospital}, year={2008}, volume={26}, pages={271 - 272} }
Editor's Note: This issue of In the Clinic has been updated. People with insomnia have trouble falling or staying asleep, and the result is poor-quality sleep of insufficient duration. Insomnia is common, affecting 1 in 3 adults intermittently and 1 in 10 adults chronically, and can seriously affect wellbeing. It typically causes excessive daytime sleepiness, irritability, and lack of energy. Long-term insomnia may lead to depression, inattention, learning and memory problems, and job or school…
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Objective measures are useful in subtyping chronic insomnia.
- PsychologySleep
- 2013
1125 Editorial—Vgontzas and Fernandez-Mendoza The diagnosis of chronic insomnia, the most prevalent sleep disorder, is based solely on subjective complaints, whereas objective measures are currently…
Insomnia Really Hurts: Effect of a Bad Night's Sleep on Pain Increases With Insomnia Severity
- PsychologyFront. Psychiatry
- 2018
Results indicated that people suffering from more severe habitual insomnia showed stronger mutual acute within-day reactivity of pain and poor sleep quality, and this asymmetric mutual reactivity showed consistent asymmetry.
1 Epidemiology of Insomnia : Prevalence and Risk Factors
- Psychology
- 2012
Insomnia is among the most prevalent health complaints, with approximately 10 to 15% of the general population suffering regularly from it and about 25 to 35% presenting transient or occasional…
Experiences and Management of Incidents That Influence Sleep in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease and Insomnia
- Psychology, MedicineThe Journal of cardiovascular nursing
- 2020
Tailored professional support is needed to change precipitating behavioral factors to be able to treat insomnia, improve sleep, reduce symptom burden, and enhance quality of life.
A Review of Scales to Evaluate Sleep Disturbances in Movement Disorders
- Psychology, MedicineFront. Neurol.
- 2018
A practical overview of the most relevant scales that assess these disturbances to guide the choice of themost useful instrument/s depending on the line of research or clinical focus is provided.
Diagnosis and management of geriatric insomnia: A guide for nurse practitioners
- MedicineJournal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
- 2008
Geriatric insomnia remains a challenge for primary care providers because of the lack of evidence-based clinical guidelines and limited treatment options available, but NPs could play a central role in reducing the negative consequences of insomnia through a systematic approach for diagnosis, evaluation, and management.
Management of insomnia in sleep disordered breathing
- Medicine, PsychologyEuropean Respiratory Review
- 2019
Comorbidity between chronic insomnia disorder and OSA is a clinically relevant condition that may confront practitioners with serious diagnostic and therapeutic challenges and advocate an integrated and multidisciplinary approach that seems superior over the isolated treatment of each sleep disorder alone.
Insomnia symptoms and incident heart failure: a population-based cohort study.
- Medicine, PsychologyEuropean heart journal
- 2021
Insomnia symptoms, both cumulatively and individually, are associated with incident HF, and public health awareness and screening for insomnia symptoms in at-risk populations should be encouraged to reduce HF incidence.
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Socioeconomic factors and ethnicity are significant independent predictors of reported insomnia symptoms and this finding has important implications for the provision of treatment services to those most in need.