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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"sleep disturbance"”.
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Improving Treatment Outcomes For Veterans With Ptsd And Sleep Disturbance
… disorder (PTSD) improve overall symptoms, but sleep disturbance often persists. Insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) frequently co-occur with PTSD and contribute to the overall sleep disturbance. Successfully treating the sleep disturbance that occurs in the context of PTSD, including …
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Shiftwork, sleep disturbance and the metabolic syndrome among female hospital workers
… Shiftwork is associated with increased sleep disturbance and cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk. This thesis will focus on shiftwork-related sleep disturbance and the potential mediating role of reduced sleep duration in the relationship between a current rotational shiftwork …
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Introspective accuracy for social cognition across the psychosis spectrum: Influence of sleep disturbance
… related to IA, but findings are mixed. Examining sleep disturbance as a determinant of IA may help explain these mixed findings. The current study aimed to explore the relationships between sleep disturbance, symptoms, and IA in participants across the psychosis spectrum. Participants completed …
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Investigating Cognitive/Affective/Sleep disturbance symptoms in Patients Receiving High-Dose Interleukin-2 Therapy
… experience severe cognitive, affective, and sleep disturbance symptoms. Immunotherapies such as high-dose Interleukin-2 (IL-2) can result in severe alterations in cognition, affect, and sleep. These alterations not only prevent patients from receiving their full course of treatment but also …
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Sleep and neuropsychological functioning in school aged children
This thesis investigated the relationship between sleep disturbance and neuropsychological functioning in healthy, typically developing children and children with cystic fibrosis (CF). Three research questions were examined in this thesis. The first examined whether sleep disturbance is associated …
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Effects of dry needling and therapeutic exercise on sleep in individuals with chronic neck pain and sleep disturbance: A pilot randomized clinical trial
… a bidirectional relationship between sleep and pain, non-pharmacological interventions are lacking to address both sleep dysfunction and pain together. Therefore, research that investigates the effects of non-pharmacological interventions not only on pain but also on sleep dysfunction …
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Comparisons Among Parent Reports and Self-Reports of Sleep in ADHD and Normal School-Aged Children
… Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) experience greater sleep disturbance than do normally-developing children. Participants included 33 parents and their children with ADHD (mean age = 10.7 ± 1.7 years) and 33 parents and their children without ADHD (mean age = 10.7 ± 1.6 years). Both parents and their …
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Lower extremity features of Velocardiofacial syndrome and other 22q11 deletions
… was instituted. The prevalences of PUA, sleep disturbance and exercise intolerance were found to be significantly higher in patients with 22q11 deletion compared with children of the general population. The clinical picture of PUA is reported and the previously unrecorded association …
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Improving Understanding of Cognitive Processing Therapy: Patterns and Predictors of Symptom Change
… predict change in other symptom criteria, and sleep disturbance may remain even after successful treatment. Improved understanding of the patterns and predictors of symptom change may help optimize treatment outcome. The current dissertation investigated variability in symptom change during and …
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Screen Time, Sleep, and Mental Health: An Investigation of Electronics Use and Sleep Habits
… study is to investigate internet usage habits, sleep disturbance, and IA as it appeared in a national United States sample, and a sample seeking clinical psychological help in the Southwestern United States. The results of the current study suggested that IA predicted sleep disturbance, and …
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Contributions of Sleep Quality and Dissociation to Attenuated Positive Psychotic Symptom Severity
Sleep disturbances have been observed across the entire psychosis spectrum. Research has begun to focus on the clinical high risk (CHR) period for psychosis, as the presence of sleep disturbance can be examined separately from the effects of antipsychotic medication and is potentially a risk factor …
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Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
… Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) veterans. Disturbed sleep is one of the most frequently reported symptoms among OEF/OIF veterans with PTSD. PTSD itself is impairing, but the burden of this disorder is likely heightened when accompanied by sleep disturbances. Sleep disturbances have been associated …
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The relationship of insomnia to mental health; longitudinal findings, importance for depression prevention, and cognitive-behavioural mechanisms.
… has documented the close relationship between sleep disturbance and mental health problems. However, the causal mechanisms at play in this relationship are not yet fully understood. This thesis aims to further understand this relationship through 1) longitudinal analyses, 2) randomised …
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The relationship of insomnia to mental health; longitudinal findings, importance for depression prevention, and cognitive-behavioural mechanisms.
… has documented the close relationship between sleep disturbance and mental health problems. However, the causal mechanisms at play in this relationship are not yet fully understood. This thesis aims to further understand this relationship through 1) longitudinal analyses, 2) randomised …
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Sleep Disruption in Cognitive and Occupational Functioning in Bipolar Disorder
… inter-episode periods are reports of pervasive sleep disturbance. Sleep disturbance has been associated with the onset of manic episodes and is an oft-reported prodrome of illness onset. Despite the presence of deficits in these two domains of functioning during affective episodes as well as the …
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Investigating the Sleep-Burnout Connection and Its Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life Among Medical Registrars at a University in South Africa
… and academic pressures places them at risk for sleep disturbance, burnout, and reduced health-related quality of life. Despite growing evidence linking these factors internationally, limited data exist for South African registrars, particularly regarding the interrelationships between sleep, …
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Investigating the relationship between sleep and emotion amongst club rugby players
In rugby players, both sleep and the ability to regulate emotion are essential to performance and well-being. For example, poor sleep quality is associated with competition losses, and the inability to regulate emotions such as impulsivity and aggression is detrimental during play and could lead to …
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Cognitive Health in Black and Latina Midlife Women: The Role of Sleep and Vasomotor Symptoms
… associations between objectively measured sleep disturbance, vasomotor symptoms (VMS), rest-activity rhythms (RAR), and memory performance in Black and Hispanic midlife women, thereby identifying potential midlife risk factors for cognitive decline and AD. Methods: Fifty-five peri- and …
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EFFECTS OF SLEEP DISRUPTION AND QUETIAPINE ON COCAINE ABUSE: THE PATH TO DEVELOPMENT OF A MONKEY MODEL OF PTSD
… the aspects of PTSD investigated included sleep disturbance, cognitive disruptions and drug abuse. These studies used Old World macaques, rhesus monkeys, because of their close phylogeny to humans, their similar sleep-wake patterns and their cognitive abilities.
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Sleep, Digital Health Technologies and Psychotic Symptoms
… most promise.<br/>(2) The Association Between Sleep Quality and Attenuated Psychotic Symptoms in a Community Sample<br/>Abstract:<br/>Aim: To determine if poor sleep quality makes a unique contribution to predicting the number ofattenuated psychotic symptoms endorsed in a prodromal …
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