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Filter by:Sesame recognized as a common healthy food. Sesamin is extracted from sesame and has high antioxidant capacity which is commonly added in functional foods. Present studies had found sesamin supplementation could improve self-reported fatigue but more evidence should be clarify. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of sesame extract on the quality of life and antioxidative status on sleeping disorder patients with not or with low arousal threshold obstructive sleep apnea and assess the potential product development.
The investigators are conducting a randomised-controlled trial comparing coherent breathing at ~5.5 breath cycles per minute-bcpm (with equal inhalation/exhalation durations of ~5.5secs each) to a well-designed placebo (paced breathing at 12bcpm with equal inhalation/exhalation durations of 2.5secs each). The metric of 12bcpm is in line with guidance from the British Journal of Nursing, Royal College of Physicians, and Johns Hopkins University which state that the average, healthy bcpm should range from: 12-20bcpm, 12-18bcpm, and 12-16bcpm, respectively, hence the investigators chose the minimum/lower bound for the active placebo control group. The main questions that our study attempts to address are: Does coherent breathing (and placebo coherent breathing) lead to improved mental health and wellbeing in a general population adult sample? The study will be conducted entirely online through the research platform Prolific, so participant data will be anonymous. The investigators will collect self-reports of mental health and wellbeing before and after the four-week breathwork period, along with a follow-up one-month later. Pre-post intervention and follow-up questionnaires will be completed online via the survey platform Qualtrics which will be linked to Prolific. Participants will also be asked how many times they practiced out of the assigned 28 days, to gauge self-reported adherence to the protocol. The investigators can then observe whether self-reported adherence correlates with changes in mental health and wellbeing, if any. Data on the self-reported credibility/expectancy of the breathwork randomly allocated to participants will also be collected, along with open-ended responses on participants' overall experience of the protocol/study.
This study; In order to investigate the effect of progressive relaxation exercises on sleep quality, serotonin and melatonin levels in cardiac patients with sleep problems, a pretest/posttest experimental design study will be conducted with a control group. The data of this study will be collected between May 2022 and December 2022. The research will be carried out with a total of 60 (experimental group=30, control group=30) patients treated for heart failure, myocardial infarction and angina pectoris in the cardiology clinic of a university hospital. The data of the study will be collected using the Richard's Campbell Sleep Scale and the Commercial ELISA kit. Progressive relaxation exercises will be applied to the patients included in the experimental group for 3 consecutive days. Before relaxation exercises, urine melatonin, serotonin level [5-hydroxyindolacetic acid (5-HIAA) and 6-sulphatoxymelatonin(6-HMS)] measurement and sleep quality will be measured according to the kit procedure. In the analysis of the data, significance p <0.05 will be accepted. Institutional permission, ethics committee approval, and written consent from the participants were obtained before the study.
Sleep disturbances are pervasive and impairing among children who spend time in foster care but not a single prevention or intervention program for this fragile group targets sleep health. Poor sleep undermines effective self-regulation and stable biological rhythms, amplifying the negative impacts of early adversity/trauma on immediate and long-term functioning. Consistent with evidence that optimizing sleep is critical for trauma recovery, the investigators will adapt cognitive-behavioral treatment for pediatric insomnia for children placed in or adopted from foster care to evaluate child outcomes and target mechanism engagement and explore implementation barriers and supports.
The purpose of this study is to assess the sleep quality and quality of life of the study population.
An Injury to the brain may lead to sleep-wake disturbances which may negatively influence functional recovery, quality of life and general rehabilitation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of music listening on sleep disturbances after acquired brain injury (ABI). During a 2 week intervention period patients with ABI will listen to music for appr. 30 minutes before going to sleep. Records of their sleep quality are compared to records of sleep quality from 2 weeks without music intervention. H1 Hypothesis: Music listening (ML) improves sleep quality after ABI in patients. H0 Hypothesis: Music listening (ML) has no effect on sleep quality after ABI in patients.
In this study the investigators will examine the effect of general anesthesia and surgery on sleep duration and sleep quality in children, using questionnaires and a sleep diary.
This study will investigate the biological mechanisms linking sleep disruption by noise and the development of disease. In a laboratory sleep study, the investigators will play synthesised automotive tyre sounds, investigating how acoustical characteristics of tyre noise impact on sleep macrostructure, cardiometabolic profile and cognitive performance (continuous traffic flow or a few individual, but higher level, traffic pass-bys). The investigators will also measure objective sleep quality and quantity, cognitive performance across multiple domains, self-reported sleep and wellbeing outcomes, and blood samples. Blood samples will be analysed to identify metabolic changes in different nights. Identifying biomarkers that are impacted by sleep fragmentation will establish the currently unclear pathways by which chronic noise exposure at night can lead to the development of diseases in the long term, especially cardiometabolic disorders.
There is an unmet medical need for monitoring sleep for multiple nights in a patient's home, without the inconvenience of traveling and staying overnight in a medical center, and without the need for a technician to set up a polysomnography (PSG) device at the patient's home. Several disorders, and particularly sleep disorders, are associated with insomnia symptoms, and longitudinal sleep assessment may support a better understanding and management of these patients, who currently seldom access sleep lab PSG. On one hand, this study aims at demonstrating whether the final device's user interface supports safe and effective use when being used at home over multiple nights. On the other, the study aims at confirming that stable and consistent data are measured in the device's actual use, for the records to be clinically usable in daily practice.
Obesity, caused by caloric intake over output, has become a global health problem. The relationship between sleep and obesity is widely discussed in the literature. Little is known regarding the compliance of sleep quality and patients' weight loss. This study aimed to review how sleep quality is affected by bariatric surgery, examine whether compliance with sleep quality can be predicted after bariatric surgery, and assess its correlation with excess weight loss.