AIMS To evaluate the effectiveness of melatonin in attenuating sleep difficulties during benzodiazepine (BDZ) withdrawal. DESIGN Double-blind cross-over control study. SETTING Methadone maintenance treatment clinic. PARTICIPANTS Eighty patients enrolled at a community methadone maintenance clinic recruited to a BDZ withdrawal programme. INTERVENTION Melatonin (5 mg/day) or placebo: 6 we...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test whether sleep disturbance mediates the effect of pain on fatigue. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Radiation therapy clinic, oncology ambulatory clinic, and inpatient oncology unit in an urban teaching hospital. SAMPLE 84 patients with cancer with multiple primary diagnoses who were experiencing pain. Fifty-three percent were female and 92% were Caucasian, with a...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Epidemiological studies have demonstrated an association between short sleep times and obesity as defined by body mass index (BMI). We wanted to determine whether this association occurs in patients with chronic medical diagnoses since the number of confounding factors is likely higher in patients than the general population. METHODS Two hundred patients attending internal me...

Abstract Background Impairments in sleep health are associated with the development or worsening of chronic pain. Further, pain can cause disruption by impacting onset, maintenance, quality, and causing daytime somnolence. However, association between disturbances young adult population is unclear. Aim We describe our initial experience establishing running a clinic for managing adults. also pr...

background and objective: obstructive sleep apnea (osa) is a disease with serious consequences. many portable devices have been developed to overwhelm some of limitations in the accessibility of the gold standard test for osa, polysomnography (psg). this study aimed to determine diagnostic accuracy of a portable sleep apnea screener against psg in patients of a sleep clinic. materials and metho...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of perceived pain on quality of sleep and life in patients hospitalized in a pain clinic. METHODS Population of the present descriptive study composed of patients (>18 years old) treated as inpatients in the algology clinic of a university located at the city center of Sivas, who consented to participate in the study (122 pa...

BACKGROUND/AIMS There is no available data on factors associated with healthcare-seeking behavior for functional dyspepsia (FD) symptoms at ei-ther tertiary or primary clinics in Japan. Therefore, we aimed to compare clinical symptoms and life styles such as sleep dis-orders and eating attitude in FD patients visiting general practitioners at primary clinics with those consulting gastro-enterol...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) is widely used as a subjective measure of sleepiness. To our knowledge, no study has evaluated its reproducibility in the clinical setting. METHODS A retrospective chart review of patients referred to the sleep clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital for evaluation of sleep-disordered breathing from a local private snoring clinic between January 2000...

introduction: adenoid hypertrophy is the most common cause of chronic airway obstruction in children. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of adenotonsillectomy on sleep and behavioral disorders in children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy.   materials and methods: in a prospective observational study, all children with an indication of adenotonsillectomy based on american academy of...

Background: The data on the association of sleep duration and blood pressure in the pediatric age group have been mixed and most studies have focused on weekday sleep duration. The purpose of this study was to compare the weekday and weekend sleep patterns between children and adolescents with newly diagnosed primary hypertension and a normotensive control group. Methods: Children and adolescen...