Sleep Hygiene
The quantity, quality and timing of sleep are affected by many everyday activities and attitudes. The importance of these in assisting or interfering with sleep is generally underestimated. In developed societies sleep is being increasingly squeezed into the time left over after family, social, work and recreational activities with the result that insomnia, excessive day-time sleepiness and other sleep symptoms are becoming increasingly common.
The aim of sleep hygiene is to translate an understanding of the nature and the control of (more…)
