introduction: inadequate sleep hygiene may result in difficulties in daily functioning; therefore, reliable scales are important to measure sleep hygiene. the purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the persian version of sleep hygiene index (shi) in the male population. methods: in this study, 787 men, who were selected by cluster random sampling, filled out the shi,...

Poor sleep hygiene is linked with sleep problems such as poor sleep quality and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDTS). Objective of this research was to assess the sleep hygiene practices of the Indian college students and study the relationship of sleep hygiene with sleep quality and EDTS. A cross sectional study was conducted among 1215 college students using Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI), Pittsbur...

Aim: This study aimed to determine the effect of folk music intervention and sleep hygiene education on the sleep quality of the older adults. Participants and Methods: This was a randomized controlled trial (RTC) that investigated the effect of music and sleep- hygiene on sleep disturbance among the elderly in Urmia. The study population consisted of 150 elderly people covered by Urmia compre...

To investigate the effects of sleep hygiene education for workers of an information technology (IT) company, we conducted a controlled clinical trial providing 581 workers one-hour sleep hygiene education. The contents of the sleep hygiene education program were a review of sleep habits, provide sleep hygiene education, and the establishment of sleep habit goals. A self-report questionnaire was...

BACKGROUND Inadequate sleep hygiene may result in difficulties in daily functioning; therefore, reliable scales for measuring sleep hygiene are important. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI). MATERIALS AND METHODS From April 2014 to May 2015, 1280 subjects, who were selected by cluster random ...

The aim of this study was to determine whether subjective sleep quality was reduced in medical students, and whether demographics and sleep hygiene behaviors were associated with sleep quality. A Web-based survey was completed by 314 medical students, containing questions about demographics, sleep habits, exercise habits, caffeine, tobacco and alcohol use, and subjective sleep quality (using th...

BACKGROUND Restoring sleep is associated with a broad variety of favorable cognitive, emotional, social and behavioral benefits during the day. This holds particularly true for adolescents, as maturational, social, cognitive, emotional and behavioral changes might unfavorably impact on adolescents' sleep. Among adolescents, poor sleep hygiene practices are a potentially modifiable risk factor t...

INTRODUCTION Poor quality of sleep is a distressing and worrying condition that can disturb academic performance of medical students. Sleep hygiene practices are one of the important variables that affect sleep quality. The objective of this study was to assess association between sleep hygiene practices and sleep quality of medical students in Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. METHODS I...