Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - Prevention & control
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Mindfulness meditation training to reduce symptom distress in transplant patients: rationale, design, and experience with a recycled waitlist.

30 Jan 2009 BACKGROUND: Solid organ transplant recipients must take immune suppressive medications that have side effects, cause complications, and lead to distressing symptoms that reduce health-related quality of life (QOL). Mindfulness meditation has been ... Read more...

Sleeping without a pill: nonpharmacologic treatments for insomnia.

30 Oct 2008 Insomnia is a complaint of patients seen in many medical settings, but it is particularly prevalent in patients who present to mental health practitioners. When choosing an intervention for insomnia, physicians often turn to pharmacological ... Read more...

Optimizing outcomes for patients with depression and chronic medical illnesses.

30 Oct 2008 Depression and comorbid chronic medical conditions such as coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, and osteoarthritis are frequently seen in the primary care setting, and the interaction of these illnesses can complicate diagnostic and treatment ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders - Prevention & control'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Painful diabetic polyneuropathy: preventing the vicious circle of pain, anxiety and sleep disorders] 8 Sep 2009
• Sex as a cure for insomnia. 16 Feb 2009
• Mindfulness meditation training to reduce symptom distress in transplant patients: rationale, design, and experience with a recycled waitlist. 30 Jan 2009
• Insomnia: restoring restful sleep. 30 Jan 2009
• Sleeping without a pill: nonpharmacologic treatments for insomnia. 30 Oct 2008
• Optimizing outcomes for patients with depression and chronic medical illnesses. 30 Oct 2008
• A warm footbath before bedtime and sleep in older Taiwanese with sleep disturbance. 29 Sep 2008
• Self-help treatment for insomnia through television and book: a randomized trial. 15 Sep 2008
• Conclusion: directions for future research into optimizing outcomes measurement in sleep medicine. 30 Aug 2008
• How did you sleep last night? Not so well, according to half of those we asked in a sweeping survey of the nation's sleeping habits. 30 Aug 2008
• Sleep disturbances in women with HIV or AIDS: efficacy of a tailored sleep promotion intervention. 30 Aug 2008
• Updated findings on the effects of stellate-ganglion block on hot flushes and night awakenings. 30 Aug 2008
• Common sense solutions for sleepless nigh. 30 May 2008
• Finding a good night's sleep: understanding insomnia. 30 May 2008
• Does pain mediate the pain interference with sleep problem in chronic pain? Findings from studies for management of diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain with duloxetine. 25 May 2008
• The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire in toddlers and preschool children. 30 Mar 2008
• Parathyroidectomy improves the quality of sleep in maintenance hemodialysis patients with severe hyperparathyroidism. 28 Feb 2008
• Insomnia on dialysis nights: the beneficial effects of cool dialysate. 28 Feb 2008
• Integrating yoga into cancer care. 30 Jan 2008
• Help for the sleep deprived. If counting sheep doesn't work for you, there are other successful strategies. 30 Dec 2007

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Technical information about 'Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders'

Definition: Disorders characterized by impairment of the ability to initiate or maintain sleep. This may occur as a primary disorder or in association with another medical or psychiatric condition.

Descriptor UI: D007319

Alternative terms: Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; Disorders of Initiating and Maintaining Sleep; DIMS (Disorders of Initiating and Maintaining Sleep); Early Awakening; Awakening, Early; Nonorganic Insomnia; Insomnia, Nonorganic; Primary Insomnia; Insomnia, Primary; Transient Insomnia; Insomnia, Transient; Rebound Insomnia; Insomnia, Rebound; Secondary Insomnia; Insomnia, Secondary; Sleep Initiation Dysfunction; Dysfunction, Sleep Initiation; Dysfunctions, Sleep Initiation; Sleep Initiation Dysfunctions; Sleeplessness; Insomnia Disorder; Insomnia Disorders; Insomnia; Insomnias; Chronic Insomnia; Insomnia, Chronic; Psychophysiological Insomnia; Insomnia, Psychophysiological;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.886.425.800.800; F03.870.400.800.800;

History Note: 2000(1966)

Technical Notes: do not confuse with SLEEP DEPRIVATION, being deprived of sleep or prevented from sleeping; usually chronic so do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE