Medicalisation, pharmaceuticalisation, or both? Exploring the medical management of sleeplessness as insomnia by Katie Coveney, Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe

“…These related to (i) institutional issues around advocacy and training in sleep medicine (ii) conceptual issues in the diagnosis of insomnia (iii) and how these played out in terms of treatment issues. …”
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Sleep, pain and daytime functioning in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome and osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional comparative study by Wai Yeung

“…Guided by a series of formal research questions, analyses compared sleep macrostructure (using American Academy of Sleep Medicine criteria), sleep microstructure (using spectral analysis), and a range of psychological variables (including pain experience, sleepiness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, perceived social support, health locus of control, pain catastrophizing and personality). …”
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Physical activity to the current recommended guidelines and sleep quality of adults with insomnia by Iuliana Hartescu

“…Such a guideline, if evidence based, could greatly clarify advice, and accelerate the use of physical activity goals to improve sleep outcomes in behavioural sleep medicine and public health. This thesis examined the current public-health recommendation of 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity per week in relation to sleep outcomes. …”
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