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Filter by:Insomnia belongs to the category of"sleepless"in Chinese medicine. Sleepless is defined as a persistent sleep disorder, results in some form of daytime impairment. Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) has obvious advantages in the treatment of chronic insomnia, but there have some subjective and objective obstacles in the advantages of TCM treatment of replication, promotion, and popularization. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out the research from a multi-angle, and further summarize the ideas and methods from the perspective of TCM, to make it more objective, visual and standardized. Insomnia is a clinical manifestation of the disorders of the Zang and Fu, and it can further aggravate the dysfunction of the Zang and Fu. The Traditional Chinese medicine believes that, outward is the internal manifestation. Infrared image can reflect the state of cold and heat, yin and yang in all parts of human body. So it is called the CT of TCM. Pre-study found that patients with sleep disorders have different infrared image than normal changes. Polysomnography is currently recognized as the golden indicator of sleep research. Polysomnography can monitor the whole sleep process, and study the sleep structure by the related indexes, which is a basic technique for Sleep medical research and diagnosis of sleep disorders, and a standard method of evaluating sleep-related pathophysiology and sleep architecture. We will study the relationship between sleep structure of the PSG, the characteristics of infrared image, the four diagnostic information of TCM, and the self-rating scales of sleep and psychology in patients with chronic insomnia.
A randomized controlled trial involving 140 subjects with (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition) DSM-5 insomnia disorder after excluding those with other medical conditions, psychiatric disorders, and sleep disorders that may cause insomnia. The subjects will be randomly assigned to either acupuncture treatment or sham acupuncture (control group) in a 1:1 ratio. The acupuncture treatment group will receive acupuncture treatments using a semi-standardized protocol. In a similar way, the sham acupuncture control group will receive acupuncture using validated non-invasive sham acupuncture needles. Both subjective (the sleep questionnaire and sleep diary) and objective (actigraphy) outcome measures will be recorded at baseline and at 1- and 5-week post-treatment. Fasting blood samples will be taken on the morning of the assessments at these time points to measure the oxidative stress parameters, including the malondialdehyde (MDA) level, and the glutathione peroxidase (GPx), paraoxonase (PON), and arylesterase (ARE) activities. The primary outcome is sleep efficiency, measured using a 7-day sleep diary and the oxidative stress parameters at 1-week post-treatment.
Background and Purpose: The purpose of the study is to test the efficacy of an audio-visual stimulation program for sleep promotion in adults with chronic pain. The hypothesis is that hyper-arousal plays an important role in insomnia. Brainwave entrainment from 8 to 1 Hz reduces arousal, and thereby improves sleep. Improved sleep may change how people perceive pain. Methods: Using a double-blind, randomized controlled trial design, we plan to enroll 30 adults (21-65 years old) experiencing both nonmalignant pain and insomnia. Exclusion criteria include: seizure disorder, sleep disorder, and night shift workers. After a one-week baseline measure, participants will be randomized to intervention or placebo group. Participants in both groups will be asked to self-administer the audio-visual stimulation program every night at bedtime for one month. Upon completion, post intervention measures will be collected.
Background: Importance of chronic insomnia (CI) problem is determined by its high prevalence rate, comorbidity and resistance to the treatment. Although cognitive behavior treatment of insomnia (CBT-I) remains the recommended treatment for CI it has disadvantages of time consuming and low treatment response. Hence shortened and simplified behavioral approaches such as Brief Behavioral therapy of insomnia (BBT-I) are developed. The aim of the present study is to test the effectiveness of BBT-I program for chronic insomnia in comparison with zopiclone in Russian population. The anthropometric, psychological and polysomnographic characteristics of patients were measured to find predictors of effectiveness of each method. Participants: 42 adults (14 males, 28 females, mean age 54 years) meeting the criteria for CI according International classification of sleep disorders-3 Methods: Participants were randomized into two groups. Each group passed 2-week courses of treatment by brief behavior treatment of insomnia (BBT-I) and zopiclone in different orders with 2-week washout period between the courses. Participants underwent in-lab polysomnography prior to the treatment and completed questionnaires (Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Dysfunctional beliefs about sleep scale (DBAS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and others) in the beginning and the end of each course
This observational study in a real-world community was designed to perform epidemiological investigation and assess effect of CPAP intervention of obstructive sleep apnea.
The aims of the study are to determine whether an online drug tapering program can lead to successful drug tapering in hypnotic dependent insomnia and whether such tapering is associated with improved daytime functioning and sleep.
Auricular acupressure therapy (AAT) has been applied in MHD patients with insomnia in recent years and yielded favorable results. However, the effect and safety of AAT for insomnia in MHD population still lacks high quality evidence. A randomized controlled clinical trial is planned to evaluate the effect and safety of AAT in MHD patients with insomnia.
The purpose of the proposed study are to explore changes in sleep and asthma outcomes from baseline to post-treatment in adults with asthma and comorbid insomnia who underwent Internet-based cognitive-behavioral treatment for insomnia (CBT-I).
The proposed study will examine changes in older insomniacs' cognitive functioning following behavioral treatment for insomnia using a combination of two methods. A traditional repeated measures design will be used to look at group level differences based on performance on a neuropsychological battery administered prior to, immediately after, and 3 months after completing a 4 week behavioral treatment program for insomnia. This data will be analyzed using standard repeated measures analytic techniques. A time-series design will also be used to look at within-subject differences based on a brief cognitive battery that will be self-administered on a daily basis. Data from this daily battery will be examined using intraindividual variability modeling.