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Sleep Hygiene

Sleep hygiene is the practice of following simple guidelines to ensure restful, effective sleep promoting daytime alertness and helping avoid the onset of sleep disorders. Trouble sleeping and daytime sleepiness can be indications of poor sleep hygiene.

The extreme form of sleep hygiene is Dark Therapy, an experimental treatment.

Sleep hygiene is now more frequently advised for conditions which research has linked to problems with sleep duration (especially short sleep duration) such as bipolar disorder, depression, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and obesity. Sleep hygiene has also been linked to school performance.

It is important to note however, that clinical trials of sleep hygiene for these conditions are few; instead a causal relationship has usually been inferred from correlations in available survey data. Also "sleeping more than 7 to 8 hours per day has been consistently associated with increased mortality" as well as has short sleep duration. Again, in general causal links are, as yet, speculative; the available data may only reflect comorbid depression, socioeconomic status, or even alcohol use.

 

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