Effective Sleep Hygiene Strategies: Key sleep hygiene practices include maintaining a consistent sleep schedule, creating a comfortable sleep environment, limiting screen time before bed, monitoring diet and hydration, regular physical activity, managing stress, limiting naps, using your bed only for sleep...
“The term ‘sleep hygiene’ can be misleading, as it suggests a focus solely on nighttime routines,” saysChester Wu, MD, sleep medicine physician in Houston, TX. “However, sleep hygiene actually encompasses behaviors and practices throughout the entire day that influence how we sleep.” “G...
10. Changes in sleep hygiene behaviors (e.g., not having a regular sleep/wake time). Sleep hygiene refers to behaviors that promote sleep quantity and quality. Examples of poor sleep hygiene include: doing non-sleep activities (e.g., watching TV), using tobacco products, drinking caffeine a...
Light has a profound impact on , and hygiene strategies that support the natural environmental light-dark cycle (i.e., red-light treatment prior to , dawn-simulation therapy prior to waking) and prevent cycle disruption (i.e., filtering short wavelengths prior to ) may be beneficial to ...
The intervention consisted of a private 45min consultation with a nurse which covered sleep hygiene, relaxation, strategies for increasing maternal sleep, acknowledgement of the challenges of parenting and sleep disruption, and details about infant sleep. They then received a booklet about sleep and ...
Healthy sleep hygiene, stress management and cognitive strategies for sleep, meditation techniques and movement exploration, increasing awareness of common sleep disorders and behavioral interventions to promote sleep may be included in a comprehensive health promotion program. Detailed action steps directed ...
Strategies for improving sleep quantity and quality should consider training and competition schedules, traveling means and schedules, and psychosocial responses associated with the matches. School schedules and tests must be considered when coaching younger players. Sleep hygiene must be framed within a ...
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia and sleep hygiene in fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial J Behav Med, 37 (4) (2014), pp. 683-697 Google Scholar [159] C.S. McCrae, J. Williams, D. Roditi, R. Anderson, J.M. Mundt, M.B. Miller, et al. Cognitive behavioral treatments...
Although sleep hygiene education is encouraged by obesity experts,11 most health professionals and patients do not implement obtaining adequate sleep duration as part of the strategies to combat the obesity epidemic.12 At the population level, the association between energy flux and body weight ...
all-day heart rate and genetic information will allow users to receive personalised feedback for health and well-being purposes and disease prevention. New technological advancements will allow for improved sleep coaching interventions that are aimed to improve sleep hygiene or provide with better recove...