The effects of the new guidance ‘take your sleeping pills 7 h before your wake-up time’: a pilot study
| Autor: | Chi-Won C. Hann, Soyoung Youn, Suyeon Lee, Seockhoon Chung, Boram Park, Kikyoung Yi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Administration time Physiology business.industry Human physiology 030227 psychiatry 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Patient satisfaction Before Bedtime Neurology Physiology (medical) Pill Insomnia Physical therapy Medicine medicine.symptom business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Sleep and Biological Rhythms. 14:397-404 |
| ISSN: | 1479-8425 1446-9235 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s41105-016-0073-7 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness and practicality of the newly proposed guidance to take hypnotics 7 h before one’s usual wake-up time, compared to the conventional guidance to do so 30 min before bedtime. Subjects with primary insomnia who were not satisfied with their hypnotics were included between November 2014 and October 2015. Participants were instructed to take their own sleeping pills 7 h before their usual wake-up times, and sleep-related time variables and symptom questionnaires were assessed at baseline and after 2 weeks. Among 32 subjects, 23 patients were successfully followed up. Adhering to the said 7-h instruction, 73.9 % (n = 17) were satisfied with their sleeping pills. Mean hypnotics administration time was significantly delayed from 9:32 p.m. ± 0:58 to 10:55 p.m. ± 0:46 (p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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