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The effects of the new guidance ‘take your sleeping pills 7 h before your wake-up time’: a pilot study
- Source :
- Sleep and Biological Rhythms. 14:397-404
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- 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
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14798425 and 14469235
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sleep and Biological Rhythms
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........0f5630e18b559ec73a6e7f2d1aad9e97