Sleep
445 peer-reviewed studies indexed
The effect of hand massage on pain, comfort, and sleep quality in palliative care oncology patients.
Hand massage is an effective method for reducing pain and increasing sleep quality and comfort in palliative oncology patients.
Integrating Multimodal Neuroimaging and Physical-Health Markers for Autism Spectrum Disorder in the ABCD Study.
Integrating multimodal neuroimaging and physical-health markers outperformed single-modality models for ASD classification in a population-based cohort, yielding an AUC-ROC of 0.68, with sleep function, right superior temporal gyrus cortical thickness, and cingulo-opercular/default mode network connectivity as the strongest predictors.
Anxiety severity moderates the relation between pineal parenchymal volume and objective sleep problems in peri-adolescent youth.
Anxiety severity moderates the relation between pineal parenchymal volume and objective sleep problems in peri-adolescent youth, whereby elevated anxiety was associated with larger pineal parenchymal volume and longer sleep onset latency, reduced sleep efficiency, and reduced NREM duration.
Association of ocular symptom burden with sleep quality and psychological distress in patients with primary glaucoma: A cross-sectional study.
Ocular symptom burden showed small bivariate correlations with sleep quality and psychological distress in primary glaucoma patients, but covariate-adjusted associations were imprecise and not statistically significant.
Habitual coffee consumption poorly correlates with sleep quality and daytime sleepiness: A cross-sectional study.
Habitual coffee consumption showed very low association with estimated patterns of sleep habits or perceived daytime sleepiness in a large cross-sectional cohort, suggesting coffee may be less impactful on sleep habits than previously thought.
[A 2-year follow-up clinical study on the multidisciplinary comprehensive treatment of burning mouth syndrome].
Multidisciplinary comprehensive treatment for BMS can effectively alleviate its pain symptoms, relieve anxiety, depression and improve sleep conditions.
Hospice Care's Influence on Pain, Sleep, Anxiety, and Depression: A Focus on Elderly Survivors of Cancer Chemotherapy.
Hospice care can effectively alleviate pain, sleep disorders, anxiety and depression in elderly cancer chemotherapy survivors, improve their quality of life, reduce adverse reactions and readmission rate and enhance nursing satisfaction and is thus worthy of clinical promotion.
Comparative effectiveness of permethrin and ivermectin on pruritus and psychological outcomes in scabies: a prospective cohort of 600 adults.
Both permethrin and ivermectin significantly improved pruritus, sleep quality, depression, and dermatology-related quality of life in scabies patients, but permethrin conferred greater short-term psychological benefit, particularly in anxiety reduction and emotional quality of life.
Effects of plain water intake before bedtime on sleep and depressive mood among middle-aged Japanese men.
Plain water intake immediately before bedtime decreased depressive mood in the morning, prolonged REM sleep latency, and reduced the duration of REM sleep, though it also increased the likelihood of nocturia.
Associations of perioperative depression with sleep quality and physical activity levels in patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery: A prospective observational study.
Perioperative depression incidence peaked at postoperative day 7 (51%) in cardiac surgery patients, and was significantly associated with poorer sleep quality and lower physical activity levels throughout the perioperative period.
No Evidence for the Efficacy of Slow-Paced Breathing as a Recovery Strategy After Sprint Interval Training.
Four weeks of daily slow-paced breathing did not confer additional performance improvements or physiological benefits when combined with sprint interval training, and unexpectedly produced a slight increase in nocturnal heart rate in the intervention group.
Quantitative and Comparative Analysis of Dream Content in Parkinson's Disease Patients Undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation: A Pilot Study.
DBS may influence and even reverse PD-altered dream content potentially through modulation of brain networks involved in dream generation.
Impulsivity as a dynamic mechanism linking young adult sleep and drinking behavior during naturally occurring drinking episodes.
Better-than-average sleep predicted decreased state impulsivity while drinking, which indirectly predicted fewer negative alcohol consequences via lighter drinking quantity in young adults during naturally occurring drinking episodes.
Daily affect and behavior in relation to inflammatory and metabolic health: An ambulatory assessment study.
More minutes spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and a more pronounced circadian rhythm, assessed with actigraphy, are important correlates of better immunometabolic health, while daily life affect variables were not associated with immunometabolic health outcomes.
Assessing the Feasibility, Usability, Acceptability, and Efficacy of an AI Chatbot for Sleep Promotion: Quasi-Experimental Study.
An AI sleep chatbot demonstrated satisfactory feasibility, usability, and acceptability, with preliminary evidence showing improved sleep outcomes including increased total sleep time by 1.4 hours and decreased sleep onset latency by 30.9 minutes, although causality cannot be established.
Nurse leader well-being: Optimizing sleep with a randomized pilot study of a digital sleep intervention.
This pilot study supports the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a digital circadian-based intervention to improve sleep among nurse leaders.
Residential Neighbourhood Environments and Health Behaviours Among Children and Adolescents Initiating Obesity Management Care: Secondary Analyses of Data From the CANadian Paediatric Weight Management Registry (CANPWR).
Less social deprivation and greater walkability and greenness were associated with higher physical activity among boys, while less material deprivation was linked to higher physical activity among girls initiating obesity management care.
Longitudinal Between- and Within-Person Associations Among Screen Time, Bedtime, and Daytime Sleepiness Among Adolescents: Three-Wave Prospective Panel Study.
Screen time and bedtime show a complex, bidirectional, and mutually reinforcing interplay over time among adolescents, whereas daytime sleepiness does not appear to be directly affected by this dynamic at the within-person level.
How sleep redraws phonemic categories after auditory selective adaptation.
Sleep does not consolidate selective adaptation per se but instead implements a change in phoneme category frequency to reflect the properties of the input, producing a 'reverse adaptation' pattern.
Mechanisms of simplified sitting Badunjin effects on symptom burden: a network-based cross-lagged analysis in advanced cancer patients.
Fatigue interference emerged as the central symptom in contemporaneous networks and fatigue consistently served as the dominant node driving subsequent sleep disturbances and quality of life outcomes across the 12-week Simplified Sitting Badunjin intervention period in advanced cancer patients.
Investigating the relationship of indoor temperature and humidity with sleeping quality in private residential care homes for persons with disabilities in Hong Kong.
Significant associations were observed between sleep quality and indoor temperature, relative humidity, sleeping periods, and self-perceived humidity in private residential care homes for persons with disabilities in Hong Kong, with many residents experiencing poor sleep quality especially in summer.
SOMAS - an open-source software for the analysis of muscle activity during sleep.
SOMAS reliably quantifies muscle tone and movements during sleep from EDF+ files using open-source algorithms, with the potential of enhancing reproducibility and collaboration in research on sleep-related movement disorders.
Trajectory and predictive factors of cancer-related fatigue in hospitalized elderly patients with non-small cell lung cancer undergoing chemotherapy.
Three distinct cancer-related fatigue trajectories were identified in elderly non-small cell lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, with disease stage, anxiety, sleep quality, and social support serving as key predictive factors.
Predictive Modeling of Preoperative Sleep Disorder Risk in Older Adults by Using Data From Wearable Monitoring Devices: Prospective Cohort Study.
A risk prediction model integrating smart wearable device sleep data with clinical assessments achieved an AUC of 0.92 for identifying preoperative sleep disorders in older adult surgical patients, with Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale score, number of awakenings, REM sleep duration, and light sleep duration as independent predictors.
Hybrid Adaptive Segmentation and Morphology-Based Classification of EOG for Automated Detection of Phasic and Tonic REM Sleep.
A fully automated framework for detecting phasic REM sleep based on hybrid adaptive segmentation of a single EOG channel yielded 92.9% correct detections and physiologically consistent REM microstructure when validated on clinical polysomnography recordings.
The Content of Dietary Melatonin in 119 Food Items and Its Relationship With Chronic Diseases: Results of the CUME+ Study.
Dietary melatonin intake was inversely associated with obesity and depression, with a non-linear dose-response pattern observed for depression, but no significant associations were found with other chronic conditions or sleep duration.
"No Words for Feelings": Alexithymia in Children With Cystic Fibrosis and Their Caregivers.
Alexithymia is prevalent among children with CF and their mothers, contributing to poor sleep in children and maternal depression, suggesting that routine psychological screening for emotional regulation difficulties in both patients and caregivers may enhance the quality of CF care.
The night matters: sleep quality and evening chronotype associated with clinical severity of psoriasis.
Patients with psoriasis more frequently display poor sleep quality and evening chronotype compared to healthy controls, and both factors are independently associated with greater disease severity, explaining 81% of the variance in PASI score.
Global Functioning and Mental Health Parameters: Examining Interplay and Improvements in Inpatient Psychiatry.
Global functioning and most mental health parameters significantly improved during inpatient psychiatric treatment, with clinician-rated depression severity being consistently the strongest predictor of global functioning, and a halo effect suggested by the strong association between clinician-rated measures.
Association between dietary carbohydrate-to-fiber ratio and sleep duration among American adults with constipation: A cross-sectional study.
A higher carbohydrate-to-fiber ratio in the diet may lead to a greater risk of short sleep duration in individuals with constipation.
Effects of Five-Element Music Therapy Combined with Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation on Clinical Outcomes in Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis.
Five-element music therapy combined with TCM comprehensive rehabilitation significantly improves psychological state, nutritional status, and sleep quality in hospitalised patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis, though liver function indicators did not differ significantly between groups.
Selective Eating Behavior and Delayed Bedtime in Children Aged 3-6 Years: The Mediating Role of Breakfast Tryptophan Intake.
Selective eating behavior in preschool children was associated with poor sleep habits, and tryptophan intake at breakfast partially mediated the relationship between selective eating behavior and later bedtimes (proportion mediated=13.6%).
Capturing individual variation in children's electroencephalograms during nREM sleep.
Bayesian reduced-rank regression applied to EEG power spectra during non-REM sleep successfully captured stable within-session neurofunctional fingerprints in pediatric populations, with fingerprint stability increasing with age.
Impact of Palatal Expansion With Up-Locker on Children With Sleep-Disordered-Breathing: A Clinical Trial.
Combined treatment with Hyrax + Up-Locker vacuum activator yielded superior outcomes in sleep architecture and sleep behavior compared to Hyrax alone in children with Sleep Disordered Breathing.
Sleep quality and weight-adjusted waist index in US adults: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2015-2020.
Higher sleep quality was independently associated with lower weight-adjusted waist index in a nationally representative U.S. sample, suggesting that improving sleep quality may serve as a modifiable strategy to reduce central adiposity and related cardiometabolic risk.
Nutritional status and loneliness impact functional status in community-dwelling older adults.
Nutritional risk and loneliness affect the relationship between activity and functional status, such that older adults with higher nutritional risk or lower loneliness may benefit from more walking or upright activities.
Depressive symptoms status and nighttime sleep duration in relation to cognitive performance in Chinese elderly: Insights from a large cross-sectional inquiry.
Depressive symptoms and nocturnal sleep duration have independent, joint, and mediated associations with cognitive impairment in older Chinese adults, with a U-shaped sleep-cognition relationship and 37.91% of the protective effect of sleep extension (≤7h) mediated by reduced depressive symptoms.
Modulation-Based Feature Extraction for Robust Sleep Stage Classification Across Apnea-Based Cohorts.
Modulation spectrograms for automatic sleep staging significantly outperform STFT and CWT baselines in Mild and Severe apnea cohorts while maintaining comparable high performance in Normal and Moderate AHI groups, demonstrating robustness across clinically stratified populations.
Sex Moderates the Mediating Effect of Physical Activity in the Relationship Between Dietary Habits and Sleep Quality in University Students.
Unfavourable dietary patterns and lower physical activity were statistically associated with poorer sleep quality among university students, with physical activity mediating the diet-sleep relationship and sex moderating this indirect association, with stronger effects observed among females.
Exploring the association between stress, coping, and sleep in a Midwestern College of Pharmacy Community: A mixed methods study.
Members of a college of pharmacy community reported moderate stress and coping and poor sleep quality, with stress predicting poor sleep quality, and OTC medication use predicting poorer sleep quality.
Association between the hemoglobin-to-red cell distribution width ratio and poor sleep quality in US adults.
HRR was significantly negatively associated with sleep disorders, sleep problems, and depression, with depression mediating 10.59% and 23.14% of the association between HRR and sleep disorders and sleep problems, respectively.
Conserved NT5C2 links context-specific behaviors with psychiatric and metabolic risk.
NT5C2 is a conserved neuro-metabolic regulator linking energy-related pathways to specific behavioral dimensions that may underlie its pleiotropic impact on psychiatric and metabolic risk.
Effects of Night Shifts on Sleep, Cognitive Performance, and Anxiety in Emergency Nurses: An Observational Within-Subject Study.
Night shifts significantly reduced cerebral oxygenation, cognitive performance, and increased state anxiety in emergency nurses, with shorter sleep duration during night shifts associated with lower regional cerebral oxygenation in both night shift and rested conditions.
Go! to sleep SM: a randomized, controlled trial for the treatment of chronic insomnia in adults epilepsy.
Both computerized CBTI and sleep hygiene education significantly improved insomnia severity, daytime sleepiness, fatigue, and sleep quality in adults with epilepsy, with cCBTI additionally associated with reduced depressive symptoms and increased sleep time.
Feasibility and Effectiveness of Personalized Home-Based Neurostimulation for Teachers Experiencing Work-Related Rumination.
Home-based personalized transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is feasible and well tolerated in teachers with work-related rumination, but personalized stimulation did not significantly outperform sham stimulation, while current amplitude emerged as a key factor influencing daytime sleepiness.
Automated measurement of pineal gland calcification volumes and sleep quality in adults living in costal Ecuador.
Study results did not find an association between increased pineal gland calcification and sleep quality after adjusting for demographics, suggesting that PGC may not necessarily indicate pineal dysfunction but could reflect adaptive physiological mechanisms.
Resilience as a Moderator of the Effects of Workplace Bullying on Psychological Distress and Sleep Quality Among Information Technology Professionals.
Workplace bullying significantly elevates psychological distress and reduces sleep quality among IT professionals, while resilience weakens the negative impact of distress on sleep, confirming a conditional mediation model grounded in Conservation of Resources theory.
Sleep Quality as a Predictor of Coronary Artery Disease Severity in Geriatric Acute Coronary Syndrome.
Poor sleep quality is independently linked to greater CAD severity in geriatric ACS patients, representing a modifiable risk factor that can reduce morbidity and mortality in this high-risk group.
Evaluation of Sleep Quality of Hospitalized Patients in Intensive Care Units With Myocardial Infarction: A Mixed Method Study.
Patients with myocardial infarction hospitalized in intensive care units showed a median Richard Campbell Sleep Questionnaire score of 66.6, with qualitative findings revealing that poor sleep quality was influenced by multiple factors including noise and privacy concerns, while good sleepers reported consistently high sleep quality both in the ICU and daily life.
Disconnection Between Self-Reported Wellbeing and Heart Rate Variability from Wearables.
Subjective feelings of readiness may not correspond to activity tracker biometrics, and caution should be taken when using HRV-based recommendations to guide a user's health and wellness journey.