Good Night's Sleep Research Articles

The Power of a Good Night's Sleep During Pregnancy

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the most common form of sleep-disordered breathing, affects up to 13% of U.S. women of reproductive age. To assess the

The sleep solution: Secrets for a good night's sleep

The sleep solution: Secrets for a good night's sleep

Migration of cations induces reversible performance losses over day/night cycling in perovskite solar cells

Perovskite cells benefit from a good night's sleep.

Relationships Between Sleep Quality and Pain-Related Factors for People with Chronic Low Back Pain: Tests of Reciprocal and Time of Day Effects.

Poor sleep quality among people with chronic low back pain appears to be related to worse pain, affect, poor physical function, and pain catastrophizing. The causal direction between poor sleep and pain remains an open question, however, as does whether sleep quality exerts effects on low back pain differently across the course of the day. This daily diary study examined lagged temporal associations between prior night sleep quality and subsequent day pain, affect, physical function and pain catastrophizing, the reverse lagged temporal associations between prior day pain-related factors and subsequent night sleep quality, and whether the time of day during which an assessment was made moderated these temporal associations. Chronic low back pain patients (n=105) completed structured electronic diary assessments five times per day for 14days. Items included patient ratings of their pain, affect, physical function, and pain catastrophizing. Collapsed across all observations, poorer sleep quality was significantly related to higher pain ratings, higher negative affect, lower positive affect, poorer physical function, and higher pain catastrophizing. Lagged analyses averaged across the day revealed that poorer prior night sleep quality significantly predicted greater next day patient ratings of pain, and poorer physical function and higher pain catastrophizing. Prior poorer night sleep quality significantly predicted greater reports of pain, and poorer physical function, and higher pain catastrophizing, especially during the early part of the day. Sleep quality × time of day interactions showed that poor sleepers reported high pain, and negative mood and low function uniformly across the day, whereas good sleepers reported relatively good mornings, but showed pain, affect and function levels comparable to poor sleepers by the end of the day. Analyses of the reverse causal pathway were mostly nonsignificant. Sleep quality appears related not only to pain intensity but also to a wide range of patient mood and function factors. A good night's sleep also appears to offer only temporary respite, suggesting that comprehensive interventions for chronic low back pain not only should include attention to sleep problems but also focus on problems with pain appraisals and coping.

Sleep well feel well: An investigation into the protective value of sleep quality on subjective well‐being

ObjectiveGetting a good night's sleep is important to ensure we function most effectively in our waking lives. One area that is particularly compromised when adequate sleep is not achieved is affect regulation, which has implications for subjective well‐being (SWB). Through the lens of homeostasis theory, an investigation into the relationship between self‐reported sleep quality, stress, and SWB was undertaken in an Australian sample, with the primary aim to further understanding of the importance of sleep and its role with regard to affect regulation.MethodThe study included 488 Australian participants (77% female) with a mean age of 28.71 (standard deviation = 10.61) who were recruited via advertisements on social media websites. Participants completed measures of SWB, sleep quality, dreaming, and stress.ResultsUsing a bootstrapped mediation analysis, sleep quality was found to partially mediate the relationship between stress and SWB. These results were further explored using a two‐way analysis of variance, which revealed significant main effects for sleep and stress on SWB, but no significant interaction effect. Finally, those who had nightmares or bad dreams reported higher stress than those who had no bad dreams or nightmares.ConclusionThese findings provide preliminary evidence to suggest that the impact of stress on SWB may be reduced when adequate sleep quality is achieved, and contribute to the growing field of literature exploring the function of dreams. The findings provide new insight that can inform therapeutic approaches to sleep disorders and stress management and guide clinical interventions.

Improvements in sleep-related symptoms after endoscopic sinus surgery in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis.

Sleep impairment is highly prevalent in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Although endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) has been shown to improve overall patient-reported sleep quality, the postoperative impact on individual sleep symptoms remains unclear. Patients with medically-recalcitrant CRS who elected to undergo ESS were prospectively enrolled into a multi-institutional, observational cohort study. Sleep-related symptom severity and treatment outcomes were assessed using the sleep domain questions within the 22-item Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22). A total of 334 participants met criteria and were followed postoperatively for an average of 14.5 ± 4.9 months (mean ± standard deviation [SD]). Mean SNOT-22 sleep domain scores improved from 13.7 ± 6.8 to 7.7 ± 6.6 (p < 0.001). Significant mean relative improvements were reported for "difficulty falling asleep" (45%; p < 0.001), "waking up at night" (40%; p < 0.001), "lack of a good night's sleep" (43%; p < 0.001), "waking up tired" (40%; p < 0.001), and "fatigue" (42%; p < 0.001) scores. A total of 66% of study participants reported postoperative improvement in "lack of a good night's sleep," "waking up tired," and "fatigue"; 62% reported improvement in "waking up at night"; and 58% reported improvement in "difficulty falling asleep." Patients with CRS report significant and sustained improvements following ESS in common sleep-related symptoms as assessed by the SNOT-22 sleep domain. Despite these significant improvements, some degree of persistent postoperative sleep impairment was reported. Further study is necessary to determine what factors are associated with continued sleep dysfunction after sinus surgery.

Associations between sleep patterns and lifestyle behaviors in children: an international comparison.

Although evidence is accumulating on the importance of a good night's sleep for healthy eating and activity behaviors, existing research has mainly been conducted in high-income, developed countries with limited sociocultural variability. This study is the first to examine the associations between sleep patterns and lifestyle behaviors in children from 12 countries in five major geographic regions of the world. This observational, multinational cross-sectional study included 5777 children aged 9-11 years from sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, India, Kenya, Portugal, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Nocturnal sleep duration (hours per night), sleep efficiency (%) and bedtime (h:min) were monitored over 7 consecutive days using an accelerometer. Lifestyle behaviors included moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), total sedentary time (SED), self-reported screen time (ST) and healthy/unhealthy diet patterns (HDP/UDP). Multilevel modeling analyses were used to account for the hierarchical nature of the data. Overall, participants averaged 8.8 (s.d. 0.9) hours of sleep with 96.2% (s.d. 1.4) sleep efficiency and a mean bedtime of 2218 hours. After adjustment for age, sex, highest parental education and BMI z-score, results showed that (i) sleep duration was negatively associated with MVPA, SED and UDP score; (ii) sleep efficiency was negatively associated with MVPA and UDP score, and positively associated with SED; and (iii) later bedtime was positively associated with SED, ST and UDP score, and negatively associated with MVPA and HDP score. Results using categories of sleep patterns were consistent with the linear associations. Results also revealed that associations between sleep patterns and MVPA, SED and ST were significantly different between study sites, with stronger associations in high-income countries compared with low/middle-income countries. Sleep characteristics are important correlates of lifestyle behaviors in children. Differences between countries suggest that interventions aimed at improving sleep and lifestyle behaviors should be culturally adapted.

Is sleep deprivation a contributor to obesity in children?

Chronic lack of sleep (called "sleep deprivation") is common in modern societies with 24/7 availability of commodities. Accumulating evidence supports the role of reduced sleep as contributing to the current obesity epidemic in children and youth. Longitudinal studies have consistently shown that short sleep duration is associated with weight gain and the development of obesity. Recent experimental studies have reported that sleep restriction leads to weight gain in humans. Increased food intake appears to be the main mechanism by which insufficient sleep results in weight gain. Voluntary sleep restriction has been shown to increase snacking, the number of meals eaten per day, and the preference for energy-dense foods. Although the causes of sleep loss in the pediatric population are numerous, more research looking at screen exposure before bedtime and its effects on sleep is needed given the pervasiveness of electronic media devices in today's environment. Health professionals should routinely ask questions about sleep and promote a good night's sleep because insufficient sleep impacts activity and eating behaviors. Future research should examine the clinical benefits of increasing sleep duration on eating behaviors and body weight control and determine the importance of adequate sleep to improve the treatment of obesity.

Sleep Health and Appropriate Use of OTC Sleep Aids in Older Adults-Recommendations of a Gerontological Society of America Workgroup.

Getting a good night's sleep can be challenging for older adults with chronic medical conditions, which often interfere with sleep. As a result, many older adults turn to over-the-counter (OTC) sleep aids, that is, products with diphenhydramine or doxylamine. However, these products are indicated only for occasional difficulty with sleep, not for chronic use; and their safety and efficacy has not been well established in general and in older adults specifically. To engage national stakeholders in a discussion of OTC sleep aids in older adults, the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) convened a multidisciplinary workgroup. The Workgroup examined differences between younger and older adults in sleep health and use of OTC sleep aids using data from the National Health and Wellness Survey; assessed the pharmacologic properties and medication effects of OTC sleep aids; and worked with stakeholders to promote strategies for safe and effective use. Older adults are more likely to take diphenhydramine or doxylamine products 15 or more days in a month, an indicator of inappropriate use. The Workgroup recommends research to investigate the ways older people use OTC sleep aids. The goal should be reduction in inappropriate use and associated risks, such as daytime sedation, compromised cognitive function, and falls. In addition, the Workgroup recommends a greater role for community pharmacists in counseling older adults on appropriate use of OTC sleep aids.

Sufficient sleep quality easily measured: a multicenter centre study in dutch ICUS

Sleep is a fundamental need for recovery while a lack of good sleep is associated with adverse effects. ICU patients have an increased risk for disturbed sleep. Various sleeping questionnaires have been developed to assess the different aspects of sleep. The Richards Campbell Sleep Questionnaire (RCSQ) is one of the most commonly used sleep assessment tools for the ICU consisting of 5 questions on different aspects of sleep and reasons for poor sleep. However, it seems irrelevant to burden patients that state to have a good night sleep with the complete RCSQ. For clinical and developmental use it is useful to quantify sleep in a simple and effective manner. Therefore, the aim of our study was to investigate a simple sleeping numeric rating score; NRS sleep.

Children's expectations about training the approximate number system.

Humans possess a developmentally precocious and evolutionarily ancient approximate number system (ANS) whose sensitivity correlates with uniquely human symbolic arithmetic skills. Recent studies suggest that ANS training improves symbolic arithmetic, but such studies may engender performance expectations in their participants that in turn produce the improvement. Here, we assessed 6- to 8-year-old children's expectations about the effects of numerical and non-numerical magnitude training, as well as states of satiety and restfulness, in the context of a study linking children's ANS practice to their improved symbolic arithmetic. We found that children did not expect gains in symbolic arithmetic after exercising the ANS, although they did expect gains in ANS acuity after training on any magnitude task. Moreover, children expected gains in symbolic arithmetic after a good night's sleep and their favourite breakfast. Thus, children's improved symbolic arithmetic after ANS training cannot be explained by their expectations about that training.

Getting a Good Night's Sleep in Adolescence: Do Strategies for Coping With Stress Matter?

Getting a good night's sleep is challenging for adolescents because of early school start times and adolescents' substantial social and physical changes. We tested whether key indices of sleep health are associated with usual styles of coping with stress and interpersonal conflict in healthy black and white adolescents. Two hundred forty-two (57% female, 56% black) high school students completed daily sleep diaries, questionnaires, and actigraphy across a school week. Linear regression models tested associations, independent of race, gender, and other covariates. Students who reported using disengagement coping exhibited poor sleep health. They had shorter sleep duration, more fragmented sleep, delayed sleep, and increased daytime sleepiness. Unexpectedly, positive engagement coping was related to daytime sleepiness and delayed sleep, although not in models that included disengagement coping. Coping strategies may be an important influence on adolescent sleep. Future research should evaluate the antecedent-consequent relationships among coping, sleep, and stress.

Sleep quality, but not quantity, is associated with self-perceived minor error rates among emergency department nurses

IntroductionThe emergency department (ED) is demanding and high risk. The impact of sleep quantity has been hypothesized to impact patient care. This study investigated the hypothesis that fatigue and impaired mentation, due to sleep disturbance and shortened overall sleeping hours, would lead to increased nursing errors. MethodsThis is a prospective observational study of 30 ED nurses using self-administered survey and sleep architecture measured by wrist actigraphy as predictors of self-reported error rates. An actigraphy device was worn prior to working a 12-hour shift and nurses completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Error rates were reported on a visual analog scale at the end of a 12-hour shift. ResultsThe PSQI responses indicated that 73.3% of subjects had poor sleep quality. Lower sleep quality measured by actigraphy (hours asleep/hours in bed) was associated with higher self-perceived minor errors. Sleep quantity (total hours slept) was not associated with minor, moderate, nor severe errors. DiscussionOur study found that ED nurses' sleep quality, immediately prior to a working 12-hour shift, is more predictive of error than sleep quantity. These results present evidence that a “good night's sleep” prior to working a nursing shift in the ED is beneficial for reducing minor errors.

Sleep on it: Consolidating implicit learning

Cognitive Neuroscience A good night's sleep is one of the best ways to fix recently learned information into long-lasting memory. Recent evidence suggests that recent memories are reactivated during sleep and woven into existing representations of stored information. Hu et al. now demonstrate that triggering memory consolidation during sleep can help set into place recently learned anti-bias training (see the Perspective by Feld and Born). Changes in people's stereotypical attitudes toward race and gender were maintained for up to 1 week after training. Science , this issue p. [1013][1]; see also p. [971][2] [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aaa3841 [2]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aab4048

Novel mechanisms, treatments, and outcome measures in childhood sleep

Sleep disorders and sleep of insufficient duration and quality are on the increase due to changes in our lifestyle, particularly in children and adolescents. Sleep disruption is also more common in children with medical conditions, compounding their difficulties. Recent studies have focused on new mechanisms that explain how learning and cognitive performance depend on a good night’s sleep. Growing alongside this latest understanding is an innovative new field of non-drug interventions that improve sleep architecture, with resulting cognitive improvements. However, we need to rigorously evaluate such potentially popular and self-administered sleep interventions with equally state-of-the-art outcome measurement tools. Animated hand-held games, that incorporate embedded sleep-dependent learning tasks, promise to offer new robust methods of measuring changes in overnight learning. Portable computing technology has the potential to offer practical, inexpensive and reliable tools to indirectly assess the quality of sleep. They may be adopted in both clinical and educational settings, providing a unique way of monitoring the effect of sleep disruption on learning, leading also to a radical rethink of how we manage chronic diseases.

HUBUNGAN TINGKAT DEPRESI DENGAN KUALITAS TIDUR PADA LANSIA DI DUSUN SEMENHARJO SURUHKALANG JATEN

Abstract Background : From the discovery of many cases of depression in the elderly that leads to decreased quality of sleep to be suicidal at the thought of illness and old age who live alone. Purpose: of this study was to determine the correlation between depression and sleep quality in the elderly in Semenharjo Suruhkalang Karanganyar`. Methods : This study is analytical, research design and cross sectional correlation. The study subjects were elderly Semenharjo totaling 53 pearsons. Once the calculation is done using the formula, samples taken by 47 person. The sampling technique used was quota sampling technique. Results : Data obtained by survey methods, namely distributing questionnaires containing HRS-D (Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression) to determine the level of depression and 20 statements to determine the quality of sleep for each respondent. The data collected is then analyzed with the chi square test with p = 0.05. From the research found 5 levels of depression that no amount of 2 elderly depression (4.3%), mild levels of depression some 11 elderly (23.4%), moderate and severe levels of depression with the same result number 8 elderly (17.0% ), and the rate of severe depression once some 18 elderly (38.3%). Then for a good night's sleep quality showed some 23 elderly (48.9%), while the quality of sleep is not restful some 24 elderly (51.1%). Conclusion : After the chi square test, p obtained for 0,000 so that the value of P &lt;0.05, meaning that Ha received so it can be concluded that there is a correlation between depression and sleep quality in elderly Semenharjo, Suruhkalang Karanganyar. Keywords: Depression and Quality Levels

Designing a very different hospital.

Hospital design has stagnated. New directions are possible, exploiting and extending 100% single rooms to provide total operational flexibility where any bed can be used for any patient. The provision of a truly therapeutic environment meets the test of getting a good night's sleep. The provision of an intelligent assistive environment brings data accuracy and real-time meta-management of all patients in the hospital. All clinicians can see how all patients are progressing clinically and feeling subjectively.

Designing a very different hospital

Hospital design has stagnated. New directions are possible, exploiting and extending 100% single rooms to provide total operational flexibility where any bed can be used for any patient. The provision of a truly therapeutic environment meets the test of getting a good night's sleep. The provision of an intelligent assistive environment brings data accuracy and real-time meta-management of all patients in the hospital. All clinicians can see how all patients are progressing clinically and feeling subjectively.

The interaction of REM sleep with safety learning in humans: could a good night's sleep alter a traumatic experience?

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a heterogeneous anxiety disorder affecting 8% of the population ([Briscione et al., 2014][1]). It is characterized by hyperarousal, intrusive reminders of the traumatic event, avoidance of trauma-related cues, and negative cognition and mood ([Briscione et al

Evaluating and Managing Insomnia: Non-pharmacological Treatments

For about 40% of Americans, Insomnia is a major health issue that often leads to fatigue, reduced immunity, and dangerous driving. A good night sleep is essential for functioning and performance. It also influences mood, cognition, concentration, fatigue, and healing. Insomnia may be related to medical and psychiatric disorders, shift work, stimulants, travel, anxiety, pain, and other problems (e.g., poor sleep environment). People with insomnia (e.g., difficulty falling asleep, frequent awakenings and daytime drowsiness) tend to rely on alcohol, drugs, and other remedies. Insomnia may reflect sleep apnea or other medical or mental health disorders that require evaluation as well as poor sleep hygiene. Insomnia can be brief, episodic or chronic. Unfortunately, many people assume that insomnia is normal and do not report it to the nurse or seek treatment. Sleep deprivation impairs the person's physical, mental, and cardiac functioning. Often insomnia is treated with medications which may have side effectives or be habit forming. Individuals with insomnia need evaluation of the precipitants of insomnia, education about sleep hygiene, and information about non-pharmacological treatments. In clinic and hospital settings, nurses are in a pivotal position to identify sleep problems, educate patients, and refer them for follow up.