The Effect of Insomnia and Insomnia Treatment Side Effects on Health Status, Work Productivity, and Health Care Resource Use.

• Prior research has suggested approximately 30% of adults report difficulty falling asleep, difficulty maintaining sleep or having poor restorative sleep. [1] • Several studies have suggested that patients who experience insomnia and symptoms of insomnia report a number of significant impairments. [2-3] • There are a number of available treatments for insomnia which in clinical studies have demonstrated significant improvements in sleep latency, sleep time, sleep quality, daytime ability to function and physical well-being. [4-6] • However, these medications are associated with a variety of unwanted effects including both cognitive and psychomotor adverse events. [7-8] It remains unclear the extent to which the health outcomes of patients are restored (relative to those without insomnia) upon being treated for insomnia. Figure 3. Differences between patients with insomnia and matched controls with respect to resource utilisation in the US and 5EU