BACKGROUND With rapid urbanization accompanied by lifestyle changes, children and adolescents living in metropolitan areas are faced with many time use choices that compete with sleep. This study reports on the sleep hygiene of urban Chinese school students, and investigates the relationship between habitual after-school activities and sleep duration, schedule and quality on a regular school da...

Background Aging causes physiological changes which affect the quality of sleep. Supervised physical exercise is an important therapeutic resource to improve the sleep of the elderlies, however there is a low adherence to those type of programs, so it is necessary to implement an exercise program which is feasible and effective. The study aimed to test the hypothesis that a semi-supervised home...

Among the first three manuscripts written in Persian, Akhawayni's Hidayat al-muta'allemin fi al-tibb was the most significant work compiled in the 10th century. Along with the hundreds of chapters on hygiene, anatomy, physiology, symptoms and treatments of the diseases of various organs, there is a chapter on sleep paralysis (night-mare) prior to description and treatment of epilepsy. The prese...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to determine the prevalence of dysmenorrhea in female adolescents living in Tbilisi, Georgia; find possible risk factors and establish an association, if any, with nutrition and sleep hygiene. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was used. A retrospective case control study was used to identify risk factors. PARTICIPANTS A total of 2561 women consented to p...

The Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI) has shown adequate psychometric properties in samples from several countries but not been validated Spanish. aims of the study were to translate original (i.e., English) version SHI into Spanish and evaluate this instrument factor structure, internal consistency reliability, concurrent, predictive, discriminant validity) adults. overall sample, comprising 548 unive...

The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between young children's sleep and maternal sleep from both a developmental and a cross-cultural perspective. Mothers of 10,085 young children completed the Brief Infant/Child Sleep Questionnaire and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Overall, there were significant relationships between maternal and child sleep for bedtime, waketime, number...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the pain-sleep relationship in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and the influence of stress and pain medication use on this relationship. METHOD Children with SCD (n = 20; aged 8-12 years) completed daily diaries assessing sleep, pain, stress, and pain medication use for up to 2 months. Data analyzed using multilevel modeling. RESULTS High daily pain was rela...

Paradoxical insomnia, which has previously been called sleep state misperception and subjective insomnia, is the reporting of severe insomnia without corroborative objective evidence of sleep disturbance or significant impairment of daytime function. Patients who have this relatively uncommon form of insomnia have a marked propensity to underestimate sleep duration and overestimate wakefulness ...