Sleep

Since 1998, the National Sleep Foundation has commemorated Sleep Awareness Week in the 7 days immediately after daylight saving time begins to encourage the public to “prioritize sleep to improve health and well-being.”

Healio Psychiatry has compiled a list of its five most-viewed stories in February.

Cognitive behavioral therapy offered via a telephone call improved sleep, fatigue and, “to a lesser degree,” pain among older adults with insomnia and osteoarthritis, according to researchers. “Scalable delivery models of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), an effective treatment, are needed for widespread implementation, particularly in rural and underserved populations lacking ready access to insomnia treatment,” Susan M. McCurry, PhD, a research professor at the University of Washington School of Nursing, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Sleeping fewer than 5 hours per night was associated with increased risks for incident dementia and death among older adults in the United States, according to research published in Aging.

Children with epilepsy experienced more sleep-related problems such as night waking, parasomnias and sleep-disordered breathing than children without epilepsy, according to a meta-analysis published in Sleep Medicine Reviews.

Both conventional exercise and tai chi were associated with modest sleep improvements, which were sustained for 24 months, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open.

Childhood adversity appeared associated with increased risk for disturbed sleep and suicide among United States veterans, according to study results published in Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Adults aged at least 65 years with type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia experienced less diabetes-related stress and better mood and functional outcomes compared with younger peers, according to study data.

Poor sleep quality and duration can drive inflammatory and antiviral immune responses, which, in turn, often exacerbate sleep disturbances, according to a speaker at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.

Short sleep duration appeared to increase the effects of frailty on depressive symptoms, according to results of a prospective cohort study published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.