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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"Insomnia"”.
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Paradoxical Insomnia, a Chronic Insomnia Subtype in Patients with Temporomandibular Disorder
… dysfunction. These findings point to a chronic insomnia subtype called paradoxical insomnia, where individuals may mistake their sleep for wakefulness and a bidirectional link between subjective daytime function and sleep. Future studies should further examine the effect of cognitive behavioral …
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The archangel of insomnia
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Effects of thought-stopping on insomnia
… of thought-stopping on chronic primary initial insomniacs, and (b) to test the attribution model of insomnia. Fourteen mid western university undergraduate students reporting chronic primary initial insomnia were trained to apply thought-stopping to their negative self-attributions specific to …
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Effectiveness of online-cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia
Markmið rannsóknarinnar var að kanna árangur netmeðferðar frá Sleephubs sem byggist á hugrænni atferlismeðferð við svefnleysi með því að notast við þriggja og sex vikna meðferðarúrræði. Notast var við hentugleikaúrtak sem samanstóð af 55 breskum þátttakendum sem glímdu við að minnsta kosti eitt af …
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Cognitive mechanisms in comorbid insomnia and chronic pain
… catastrophizing, pre-sleep arousal (PSA), and insomnia severity in chronic pain patients. Forty-eight outpatients with chronic pain (duration of 6 months or more) completed self-report measures of health, mood, pain, and sleep. A hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to determine the …
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Dementia Risk in Elders with Anxiety and Insomnia
… neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety and insomnia, are indicators of prodromal dementia which may lead to treatment with benzodiazepine-receptor agonist medications. Therefore, the association between BZRAs and subsequent dementia may be a spurious correlation for which the prodromal onset …
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Dementia Risk in Elders with Anxiety and Insomnia
… neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety and insomnia, are indicators of prodromal dementia which may lead to treatment with benzodiazepine-receptor agonist medications. Therefore, the association between BZRAs and subsequent dementia may be a spurious correlation for which the prodromal onset …
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Type 2 Diabetes And Insomnia: Impact On Metabolic Control
… type 2 diabetics. No research on the impact of insomnia on diabetes prevention and/or management was found in the literature. The purpose of this 11 week intervention study was to examine the effects of participation in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI) on the sleep quality, …
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A comparison of attention bias paradigms related to insomnia
… the role of attentional biases in Primary Insomnia. Participants (n=117) were split into good sleepers and poor sleepers using a median split with the Pittsburgh Insomnia Rating Scale (PIRS). Using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as the covariate, two-way mixed …
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Risk factors for dropout from online cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia
Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is an effective treatment option for symptoms of insomnia with the majority of patients showing reduction in symptoms after treatment. Despite this, a relatively consistent number of patients drop out and thus mitigate the treatment‘s …
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Utilizing art therapy journaling to decrease insomnia and promote sleep hygiene
… how sleep quality in individuals experiencing insomnia can improve through the practice of cognitive behavioral therapy in combination with art therapy. The project measured how routine behavioral practices of sleep hygiene joined with creating a daily entry in an art therapy journal can reduce …
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Prediction by Insomnia to Treatment Outcomes in an Adolescent Suicide Management Program
BACKGROUND: Insomnia is the symptom most strongly associated with suicide-related thoughts and behaviors in adolescents and young adults with diverse diagnoses, even after adjusting for psychiatric conditions like depression (Goldstein, 2008). However, there is little empirical evidence that …
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The relationship between obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and insomnia: implications for treatment
… a number of OSAS patients complain of insomnia, i.e., disorders of initiating or maintaining sleep. If the insomnia in patients with OSAS is secondary to the medical condition, then it would be expected to abate with the successful treatment of OSAS. If, however, the insomnia is …
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A controlled comparative investigation of psychological treatments for chronic sleep-onset insomnia
Seventy, GP-referred, sleep-onset insomniacs were randomly assigned to either progressive relaxation, stimulus control, paradoxical intention, placebo or no treatment control groups. Following baseline assessment of sleep pattern and quality subjects received 8 weeks of treatment, comprising 4 …
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Insomnia symptoms in elderly persons - assessment, associated factors and non-pharmacological nursing interventions
… of this thesis was to test a tool for assessing insomnia symptoms in elderly persons and to investigate late-life insomnia in terms of associated factors and evidence of non-pharmacological interventions in healthcare settings. Data were collected by means of a systematic literature search (Study …
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Treatment Considerations for Comorbid Insomnia and Chronic Pain: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Clinical Care
BACKGROUND: Interdisciplinary pain management programs have proven to be quite effective in alleviating presenting patient symptoms. Sleep is a complex process not well understood and the effects it maintains on subsequent daytime function appear to influence pain and related symptoms. SUBJECTS: …
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Towards the development of music as an intervention for Insomnia treatment: A research synthesis
… sleep sciences, music as an intervention for insomnia, music-assisted relaxation (PMR) for Insomnia, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBTi), and Sleep Medication. From these two main areas of interest comparisons and contrasts can be drawn up which highlight specific areas which may …
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The role of nocturnal cognitive arousal in the complaint of insomnia among older adults
… hyperarousal in the etiology and maintenance of insomnia and suggest that negative cognitive activity acts as mediator between personality factors and negative affect on the one hand, and insomnia complaints and poor daytime functioning on the other. The present study examined nocturnal sleep …
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The effects of an evening structured problem-solving procedure in undergraduate college students with insomnia
… persist after successful behavioral treatment of insomnia. The present investigation will examine the effects of a "constructive worry" procedure in an undergraduate population with impaired sleep. Thirty-three undergraduate students who reported three or more nights per week in the last month of …
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The quarter of an hour rule: a simplified cognitive-behavioural intervention for insomnia improves sleep
… of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for insomnia and is the single intervention for which there is most empirical evidence. Nonetheless, little is known about whether all of the elements within SC are critical to sleep improvement. This study, therefore, investigated the impact on sleep …
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