Background & Aims: Both headaches and sleep problems are the most common clinically reported problems. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between sleep quality and migraine headaches.  Materials & Methods: General design of this study was a descriptive correlative. To achieve our aim, 263 subjects (137 female and 126 male) were randomly selected from Urmia University...

Background: Sleep disorders are common complaints during pregnancy and can be suitable for many disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum for mother and the fetus. The aim of this study was to assess sleep quality in pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy referred to health centers of Mashhad. Methods: A total of 168 eligible women referred to health centers participated in this...

Background and Aim: Sleep quality has a fundamental and important role in determining the physical and psychological health of humans. Sleep disorders are widespread and have very damaging effects on the individual and social aspects of human life. This research was aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of hypnotherapy on sleep quality improvement. Materials and methods: The method research wa...

Introduction and purpose: Changes in sleep quality is one of the important physiological changes that appears during aging and the aging process .So we can say negative changes in sleep quality is one of the problems that affect the quality of life in old age. The aim of this study was to investigate sleep quality in active and passive elderly men in Shiraz’s parks. Materials and Metho...

a significant problem in multicarrier communication systems is the necessity to reduce the value of papr (peak-to-average power ratio) of transmitting signal. in this thesis we study the effect of the system parameters such as coding and modulation types on papr and ultimate ber in a mc-cdma system. in this study we consider fading channel as well as the nonlinearity of transmitter’s amplifier ...

Introduction & Objective: Hospitalization can significantly disrupt sleeping patterns. considering the prevalence of insomnia and widespread use of benzodiazepines and other hypnotics in hospitalized patients, we conducted this study to assess the quality of sleep and hypnotic drug use in hospitalized adult patients in 2007. Materials & Methods: This descriptive analytical cross-sectional...

Objectives: Low quality sleep is one of the most common problems during the elderly. The present study aimed at determination of effect of sleep health education program by telephone follow-up on the sleep quality among the elderly. Methods & Materials: This semi-experimental study was performed on 80 elderly people aged 74-60 years who had the criteria to enter the study. The data collection ...

Background & objectives: One of the factors affecting the performance of video display terminal users is their mental work load. Since low sleep quality causes fault and decreased accuracy in work, this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between mental work load and sleep quality in video display terminals users. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on 191 video d...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of restriction sleep treatment on the quality of sleep in the elders. Methods & Materials: The study was a quasi-experimental research. The study population consisted of 5000 elders who were members of jahandidegan center of Shiraz. Sample included 50 elder’s who were selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. F...