TEMPERATURE BIOFEEDBACK ON SLEEP LATENCY

睡眠潜伏期的温度生物反馈

• 批准号: 7604154
• 负责人: Matthew R. Ebben
• 金额: $ 0.13万
• 依托单位: WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2007-09-16
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7604154
• 关键词: Absenteeism; Adverse effects; Affect; American; Area; Behavior Therapy; Biofeedback; Chronic Insomnia; Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Database; Condition; Dependency; Disease; Distal; Funding; Goals; Grant; Hand; Heating; Individual; Institution; Limb structure; Long-Term Effects; Medical; Memory; Motor; Patients; Performance at work; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Population; Quality of life; Recording of previous events; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Sleep; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; Sleeplessness; Social Interaction; Source; Substance abuse problem; Techniques; Temperature; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; base; foot; health care service utilization; hypnotic; sleep onset

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Insomnia is a debilitating disorder which affects anywhere from 6% to 33% of the US population depending on the precision of the definition being used. Individuals with insomnia report problems including difficulty focusing/ concentrating, memory difficulties, impaired motor coordination, irritability and impaired social interactions. Chronic insomnia is associated with reduced quality of life, higher absenteeism, impaired job performance, and higher healthcare utilization. Insomnia treatment for most Americans involves the use of hypnotic medications. However, various side effects such as tolerance and dependency is associated with traditional hypnotic drugs and the long term effects of hypnotic usage in insomnia sufferers is largely unknown. Hypnotics may also be contraindicated because of a patient's current medication usage, a history of substance abuse, and/or existing medical conditions. On the other hand, behavioral treatments, which do not suffer from these shortcomings, have been found to be effective in treating insomnia and have more durable results than hypnotics, particularly with patients suffering from the sleep-onset type of insomnia. It has recently been discovered that sleep onset is best predicted by an increase in the amount of hand and foot warming relative to more proximal areas. Based on this finding a previous study investigating distal limb warming was performed and the findings suggest that it may be an effective technique to treat sleep onset difficulties. The goal is to further this work by developing a new behavorial treatment for insomnia based on heating patient's hands and feet via temperature biofeedback.

该子项目是利用该技术的众多研究子项目之一 资源由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 研究者 (PI) 可能已从 NIH 的另一个来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他 CRISP 条目中表示。列出的机构是 对于中心来说，它不一定是研究者的机构。 失眠是一种使人衰弱的疾病，影响着 6% 到 33% 的美国人口，具体取决于所使用的定义的精确度。失眠者报告的问题包括注意力不集中、记忆困难、运动协调受损、易怒和社交互动受损。慢性失眠与生活质量下降、缺勤率较高、工作绩效受损和医疗保健利用率较高有关。大多数美国人的失眠治疗涉及使用催眠药物。然而，传统催眠药物存在多种副作用，如耐受性和依赖性，并且催眠药物对失眠患者的长期影响尚不清楚。由于患者当前的药物使用情况、药物滥用史和/或现有的医疗状况，安眠药也可能是禁忌的。另一方面，行为疗法没有这些缺点，已被发现可有效治疗失眠，并且比催眠药具有更持久的效果，特别是对于患有入睡型失眠的患者。最近发现，最好通过相对于更近的区域手脚变暖程度的增加来预测睡眠开始。基于这一发现，之前进行了一项调查远端肢体变暖的研究，结果表明这可能是治疗入睡困难的有效技术。 我们的目标是通过开发一种新的失眠行为疗法来进一步推进这项工作，该疗法基于通过温度生物反馈加热患者的手脚。