Epidemiology of the insomnia

• Autor(es):

  Souza, José Carlos (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa);

  Reimão, Rubens (Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Medicina. Hospital de Clínicas, Centro de Distúrbios do Sono).

• Fonte:

  Psicologia em Estudo; volume 9, número 1, páginas 3-7. Abril 2004.

• Assuntos:

  sleep;

  insomnia;

  epidemiology.

• Resumo:

  A vast literature review on the insomnia epidemiology, the most common sleep disorder, using MEDLINE and LILACS last 30 years of data, was performed from January 2002 to November 2003. The key-words were: sleep initiation disorders, sleep maintenance disorders, early awakening disorder, insomnia, sleep disorders, insomnia prevalence, insomnia consequences. Several insomnia definition criteria and epidemiology researches methods, with data comparison difficulties, were noticed. In the future it will be necessary similar insomnia definition and epidemiology studies criteria.

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