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Filter by:The hypothesis for this study is that some individuals may be at much higher risk to develop type 2 diabetes and that the individual diabetes risk will be predicted by the individual level of slow wave sleep activity (SWA).
Sleep quantity and quality can be influenced by the type of mattress used. This study is being done to see if a mattress cover with optically active particles can help back pain and improve sleep quality.
Patients receiving treatment for advanced cancer often experience co-occuring pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance that are not relieved with medications. Brief cognitive-behavioral coping strategies such as relaxation or imagery have been shown to be useful for these symptoms individually and may be effective for the cluster of co-occuring pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance. Because single cognitive-behavioral strategies don't work equally well for all persons, providing training in multiple cognitive-behavioral strategies is necessary. However, oncology nurses report having insufficient time and are often not available to deliver the interventions exactly when patients experience symptom exacerbation. This application proposes a patient-controlled cognitive-behavioral (PC-CB) intervention, using an MP3 player to deliver recorded cognitive-behavioral strategies. The PC-CB intervention would allow patients to select from a variety of cognitive-behavioral strategies based on their personal preferences, and facilitate self-administration of those strategies at whatever time and place the symptoms occur, without increasing burden on nursing staff. Primary aims are (1) to explore acceptability and patterns of use of the recorded cognitive-behavioral strategies and (2) to pilot test efficacy of the PC-CB intervention compared to a waitlist control.
The purpose of this study is to compare the sleep quality of patients with psoriasis to patients without psoriasis.
Night waking with crying can be a distressing and difficult experience for infants and their parents. The investigators want to reduce infant night waking and crying and improve parents' views of their infants' sleep. This study will help the investigators determine whether parents who receive group teaching about infant sleep and follow-up phone calls provided by Public Health Nurses will reduce numbers of infants' night wakes and parents' perceptions of infant sleep difficulties compared with parents who receive a group teaching about infant safety and follow-up phone calls provided by Public Health Nurses. Results from this study will help the investigators improve their practice when assisting parents and infants with sleep problems.
Hypotheses: - Hypothesis 1 - Sleep can be measured in Theater using actigraph technology. - Hypothesis 2 - Standard sleep measures in Soldiers randomized to a sleep intervention group will more closely approximate normal as compared to sleep measures of Soldiers randomized to the control group.
The purpose of this study is to study circadian rhythms, or daily cycles of sleep, wake, and activity. The investigators hope to learn how disturbed sleep in Alzheimer's Disease relates to changes in activity cycles, and how sleep disturbances may affect your daytime alertness. This project selects patients suffering from memory problems, or voluntary to be in our Control Group. There are three parts to this study: Sleep Diaries, Behavioral Questionnaire, and Activity Recordings
To test if usual at home night time sleep duration as measured with activity monitors and questionnaires will predict changes in kidney function as measured by kidney filtration rate and of cardiovascular function as measured by C-reactive protein in the blood. The study will explore the role of decreased sleep time or decreased sleep quality as a non-traditional risk factor for the progression of CKD and for the development of cardiovascular disease in CKD.
This study will help determine the relationship between impaired sleep and chronic kidney disease, specifically to determine if sleep disturbances are a risk factor for worsening kidney function.
This study is designed to determine if either short night time sleep or poor night time sleep could be a risk factor for increasing the rate at which kidney function deteriorates in persons with mild to moderate kidney disease.