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Filter by:Many patients complain to clinicians that they have difficulty sleeping appears to be due to environmental noise. There is a common perception that acute noises are more troublesome than continuous noises in the effect on individual sleep quality. Therefore the goal is to use a Marpac white noise maker with a continuous noise to see its effect on individuals that have difficulty sleeping in a high noise environment.
This randomized phase III trial compares yoga, survivorship health education program, and cognitive behavioral therapy in reducing sleep disturbance (insomnia) in cancer survivors. Insomnia can be described as excessive daytime napping, difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, or waking up earlier than desired. Insomnia can increase fatigue, impair physical function, impair immune function, cause circadian rhythms (known as the biological clock) to be disrupted and decrease quality of life. Yoga may improve circadian rhythms, physical and immune function, and improve insomnia and sleep quality in cancer survivors. It is not yet known whether yoga is more effective at treating insomnia than a health education program or cognitive behavioral therapy program.
Gynecologic cancers cause substantial morbidity and mortality among women. Developing, implementing, and disseminating interventions that reduce morbidity and mortality secondary to gynecologic cancers are a public health priority. In spite of this, there is a paucity of research examining the effects of psychosocial interventions on patient-centered and physiological outcomes in this population. To the extent that psychological factors may influence quality of life and tumor biology among women with gynecologic cancers, psychological interventions may represent an important adjunct to standard clinical care in this population. As such, this study will examine the effects of a psychosocial intervention on sleep, pain, mood, cortisol, and cytokines in women with gynecologic cancers.
Insomnia is characterized by rumination and worry over stressful events affecting nighttime sleep. Emotional reactions while stressful events are ongoing have not often been investigated in insomnia. In the current study stress reactions will be measured during a real-life simulation experiment with stressful events and investigate not only how previous sleep patterns affect emotional reactivity to the event but also how the emotional events affect sleep patterns the following night. Thirty-six female subjects (age 25-45 years) without sleep complaints (n=18) or with insomnia (n=18) will enroll in a interventional study measuring the reaction to and effects of either neutral or stressful events during driving. Through questionaires and intake polysomnography, clinical levels of depression and anxiety will be excluded as well as sleep medication use and alternative sleep disorders than insomnia. Stress levels will be measured through skin conductance and heart rate variability during events and through nighttime polysomnography (PSG). Effects on sleep architecture and arousal levels will be measured through nighttime PSG. Investigators hypothesize that subjects with insomnia, compared to subjects without sleep complaints, show stronger emotional reactions to stressful events and stronger effects of stress on sleep quality the following night. Results will facilitate a model for emotional reactivity in chronic sleep disruption which may aid to prevent short term sleep disruption converting into chronic insomnia and aid in developing customized insomnia treatment.
Deficient sleep duration and sleep disturbances - such as insomnia, sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and restless legs syndrome (RLS)- are associated with hypertension and cardio-cerebrovascular morbidity and mortality. Several studies suggest that sleep disorders are frequent after stroke and detrimental for stroke outcome. However, more prospective studies in a large unselected sample of stroke survivors are needed to better investigate the short- and long-term consequences of sleep disturbances on mortality and occurrence of new cardio-cerebrovascular events. Also their pathophysiological mechanisms and their influence on stroke recovery should be better understood. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess the impact of sleep deficiency and sleep fragmentation on the frequency of new cerebro- and cardiovascular events and death after stroke or transient ischemic attacks, and clinical outcome within one and two years after stroke. The working hypotheses are that stroke survivors with sleep deficiency and sleep fragmentation due to insomnia, sleep-disordered breathing or restless leg syndrome will present: (1) higher mortality from all causes and higher frequency of new cardio-/ cerebrovascular events; and (2) a less favorable clinical outcome. Outcomes will be compared between patients with and without sleep deficiency and fragmentation. Since current clinical practice in cerebrovascular patients does not sufficiently consider sleep disorders in patient's management, this study can help to bring attention to a still overlooked medical problem and change the current standard of management of stroke survivors.
The goal of this project is to develop guidelines for the clinical tailoring of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) for Veterans with psychotic disorders and insomnia, and to test the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy of CBT-I for improving sleep-related functional outcomes in this population.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of suvorexant, added to existing medications, for treatment-resistant insomnia in individuals with bipolar disorder. The investigators hypothesize that participants receiving suvorexant for one week will experience significantly greater improvement in sleep duration compared to participants receiving placebo.
Research has shown that persons who have trouble sleeping and experience stress are at risk of developing heart diseases. Two treatments, called stimulus control instructions and sleep efficiency treatment, that do not involve sleeping pills, have been found effective in managing trouble sleeping. This study will be undertaken to find out if the two treatments are effective in improving sleep, and reducing stress and the risk of heart diseases. Persons with trouble sleeping may have a preference for either treatment. It is believed that if persons get the treatment they prefer, then they will be satisfied with the treatment and comply with it, and experience improvement in their sleep. This study will also examine the extent to which giving persons the treatment of their choice, as compared to giving persons treatment based on chance, will lead to higher satisfaction and compliance with treatment, and improved sleep. About 300 persons who experience trouble sleeping will be included in the study. They will be requested to complete a questionnaire and a sleep diary before and after they receive treatment, as well as 6 month and one year later.
Insomnia and hypertension are common health problems that often occur together and influence each other. This practical, low-cost, clinical trial will evaluate two behavioral treatments for insomnia (a brief intervention with therapist contact and a self-guided Internet intervention) compared to usual care. Participants will be recruited using the electronic health record in their primary care physicians' offices, and will be evaluated for sleep, blood pressure, and health outcomes after 9 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months.
In order to determine the acceptability of a breast cancer-specific cognitive behavioral therapy intervention, as well as to obtain preliminary data to assess efficacy in managing symptoms, the investigators will ask 45 breast cancer survivors with moderate insomnia, fatigue, and/or pain to use the investigators' internet-based intervention for 8 weeks and to complete patient-reported outcomes assessments before and after the 8 week intervention.