background sleep habits and total sleep duration are essential factors for healthy growth and development of children. there is evidence showing that eating time and quantity as well as proportion of foods macronutrients affect the sleep quality. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the sleep habits of preschool children in qazvin and the role of calorie, macronutrients and caffe...

This study examines the effect of smartphone addiction on academic performance medical students with mediating role self-regulation and bedtime procrastination. The framework this is based social cognitive theory. Data was collected through an adopted questionnaire from at different institutes in Pakistan. A survey distributed among 300 however 260 participated returned it. SmartPLS3 used to an...

1077 Effects of Sleep Problems in Children—Turnbull et al INTRODUCTION Behavioral sleep problems are the most common sleep problems in childhood within the general population. Between 15% and 30% of 2to 5-year-old children experience regular difficulties falling asleep (i.e., bedtime problems) or sleeping through the night (i.e., night waking).1-4 Fewer school-aged children experience behaviora...

Sixteen children (aged 3 to 12 years) participated in a 12 month crossover study comparing bedtime with teatime insulin injections in an endeavour to reduce morning hyperglycaemia. Blood glucose values were lower at lunch and at teatime on the later injection, but higher at bedtime and midnight. There was no overall change in glycosylated haemoglobin. Despite more frequent mild hypoglycaemic at...

A study found that patients taking the recommended 3-mg dose of the sleep aid eszopiclone (Lunesta) at bedtime continued to have impaired driving skills, memory, and coordination for as long as 11 hours after ingestion. Patients were often unaware they remained impaired. As a result, the FDA has recommended decreasing the starting dosage of eszopiclone to 1 mg at bedtime. The change should resu...

Getting insufficient sleep has serious consequences in terms of mental and physical health. The current study is the first to approach insufficient sleep from a self-regulation perspective by investigating the phenomenon of bedtime procrastination: going to bed later than intended, without having external reasons for doing so. Data from a representative sample of Dutch adults (N = 2431) reveale...

To the Editor: Asenapine is a newly approved, second-generation antipsychotic with demonstrated efficacy for the treatment of schizophrenia.1,2 However, the acceptance of asenapine is compromised in some patients by its associated daytime sleepiness. The US Food and Drug Administration recommended dose for asenapine as the acute treatment of schizophrenia is 5 mg twice daily,3 but its terminal ...

BACKGROUND Nocturnal awakening is the most frequent insomnia complaint in the general population. In contrast to a growing knowledge based on adults, little is known about its prevalence, correlated factors, and associations with subjective sleep perception and daytime sleepiness in children. This study was designed to assess the prevalence and the correlate factors of frequent nocturnal awaken...