OBJECTIVE Although psychostimulants have been shown to affect sleep in experimental studies, the relation between nonmedical psychostimulant use and sleep has not been examined. Our goal was to describe the sleep quality and characteristics of college students who use psychostimulant medications nonmedically. METHODS We surveyed 492 college students about their sleep quality and psychostimula...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate sleep quality in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) using a validated outcome measure and to compare measures of CRS disease severity with sleep dysfunction. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional evaluation of a multi-center cohort. METHODS According to the 2007 Adult Sinusitis Guidelines, patients with CRS were prospectively enrolled from four academic, ter...

  Background: Sleep disorders are common among patients with chronic heart failure (HF), and it can have a significant effect on patients’ daily activities as well as their health. The purpose of this study was to assess sleep quality and its predictors in Iranian patients with chronic HF.   Methods : This cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 200 patients with HF in two hospitals ...

BACKGROUND: Many patients on regular hemodialysis have sleep disorders, which affect not only their quality of life but also their immune function, thus causing inflammatory disorders and cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to assess the sleep quality and related risk factors of sleep disorder in hemodialysis patients from a rural area in central Taiwan. METHODS: The Pittsburgh Sl...

Clinical effectiveness of sedative music on sleep quality was investigated. Subjects were 14 females aged 40s to 70s, and methods included listening during going using by sound support player “Lullaby reverberation (Komoriuta-no-Hibiki)”, which evaluated Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) in 0,4,8 weeks. Thirteen cases showed decreased points PQSI. Time duration almost the same. The relation...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: BHU: Basic Health Unit; BMI: Body Mass Index; EDS: Excessive Daytime Sleepiness; ESS: Epworth Sleepiness Scale; ICSD-3: International Classification of Sleep Disorders -3a edition; NRPE: Non-Regular Physical Exercise; PSQI: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; RPE: Regular physical Exercise; SCF: Statement of Consent Form; SF-36: Medical O...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate sleep characteristics verifying for the presence of depressive symptoms in mothers of insomniac children living in São Paulo (Brazil) and Barcelona (Spain). METHOD Forty-six mothers were evaluated, 37 from São Paulo and nine from Barcelona, their ages varying from 19 to 44, and their children; otherwise healthy but with complaints of insomnia, their age varying from thre...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between glycemic control in Type 2 diabetics and sleep duration and quality of sleep. METHODS There were 220 adult non-insulin dependent diabetics (Type 2) with 69 males and 151 females. The mean age was 59.4 +/- 9.2 yrs (Mean +/- SD), mean BMI 35.6 +/- 9.9 kg/m2, and mean HbA1c 8.2 +/- 2.1%. Detailed questions about history and management of diabetes, h...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: BHU: Basic Health Unit; BMI: Body Mass Index; EDS: Excessive Daytime Sleepiness; ESS: Epworth Sleepiness Scale; ICSD-3: International Classification of Sleep Disorders -3a edition; NRPE: Non-Regular Physical Exercise; PSQI: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; RPE: Regular physical Exercise; SCF: Statement of Consent Form; SF-36: Medical O...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The association between clinical symptoms, gastric emptying, quality of life and sleep disorders in distinct functional dyspepsia (FD) patients has not been studied yet in detail. METHODS We enrolled 79 FD patients (postprandial distress syndrome [PDS], n = 65; epigastric pain syndrome [EPS], n = 47; EPS-PDS overlap, n = 33) and 44 healthy volunteers. Gastric motility was eval...