This trial is evaluating whether sleep extension will improve 1 primary outcome and 3 secondary outcomes in patients with Sleep Extension. Measurement will happen over the course of 8 weeks.
This trial requires 54 total participants across 2 different treatment groups
This trial involves 2 different treatments. Sleep Extension is the primary treatment being studied. Participants will all receive the same treatment. There is no placebo group. The treatments being tested are not being studied for commercial purposes.
"A statistically and clinically significant shortening of the mean time to awakening, a marker of sleep disturbance, was observed during the experimental condition with sleep extension using the S-PAP. We consider these findings to be in good agreement with those reported in studies using the S-PAP to reduce arousals or induce sleep. Therefore, we conclude that sleep extension can be a treatment for sleep-disordered breathing, but more extensive studies with longer follow-up are needed." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Being unable to sleep after a certain period can be a sign of sleep extension. Sleep extension can be difficult to recognize considering that a sleep study can be inconclusive in distinguishing a normal from an abnormal sleep pattern." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Common treatments for sleep extension include lifestyle techniques (eg, exercise, sleep restriction), pharmaceutical techniques (eg, melatonin), and complementary treatments (eg, acupuncture). While the evidence supports these interventions for sleep deprivation, evidence is insufficient for their efficacy for sleep extension. Patient and provider preferences, as well as limitations in the treatment of sleep extension may limit the usefulness of these interventions. Future research needs to examine the effectiveness and side effects of treatment for insomnia and sleep extension." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Sleep extension appeared to have a significant positive effect on health-related quality of life, but sleep restriction did not. This suggests that sleep extension may be an important determinant of long-term sleep quality. Future intervention studies should address mechanisms of sleep restriction and examine whether sleep restriction leads to other negative health outcomes, like psychological or cardiovascular disease." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Side effects can be classified into four categories: mood changes, sleep disruptions, non-mood-related, and psychiatric-like manifestations. At least one treatment-related adverse effect was detected. Adverse effects are associated with extended doses of night therapy and with increased numbers of patients tested, although not with increased sleep efficiency." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Sleep time extension, using an electronic wrist device, was not more effective than a placebo for the primary outcome of sleep onset latency. Both treatments increased wake time, suggesting a REM rebound was occurring, and sleep quality did not improved." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Adjuvant sleep extension does not increase sleep duration in healthy young adults. Sleep extension has little effect on vigilance and performance in a simulated operating room task, suggesting that it cannot be used safely to induce sleep." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"People who perform more sleep do not have slower heart rates after-hours. Other types of sleep extension were identified, and more rigorous tests are needed for all other types of sleep extension." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Findings from a recent study of this study show that the addition of sleep extension to a patient with moderate insomnia significantly improves sleep efficiency. This finding may prove invaluable in patients with comorbid mood and anxiety disorders and warrants further study." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"During the course of an unmeasured night, sleep in the population is characterized by a large component of REM sleep, much larger, however, than the previously reported nightly mean, and a strong and nonuniform influence of naps that were not in the typical pattern of sleep stages. These wakefulness events are associated with significant increases in respiration and alerting response to environmental cues. The current results support the hypothesis that sleep extension affects alertness as a function of sleep respiration and alertness during the period when awakening cues occur." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Approximately 70 million people a year will need help in the form of either a sleep extension device or counseling to help them to obtain more uninterrupted sleep." - Anonymous Online Contributor
"Results indicated that two factors, poor sleep duration and poor sleep quality, are positively associated with insomnia. Poor sleep duration and other health, behavioral, and environmental factors can increase the risk of developing sleep disorders, especially insomnia." - Anonymous Online Contributor