The Tale of Orthosomnia: I Am so Good at Sleeping that I Can Do It with My Eyes Closed and My Fitness Tracker on Me

Review Clinical Neurology

How are Consumer Sleep Technology Data Being Used to Deliver Behavioral Sleep Medicine Interventions? A Systematic Review

K. Glazer Baron et al.

Summary: Consumer sleep technology is increasingly being used to deliver behavioral sleep interventions, mainly focusing on insomnia treatment and sleep monitoring in overall wellness programs. Most studies are fully digital, lacking human intervention, and further research is needed to explore how to enhance sleep treatments and engage patients using wearable technology.

BEHAVIORAL SLEEP MEDICINE (2022)

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Review Health Care Sciences & Services

The Implementation of Behavior Change Techniques in mHealth Apps for Sleep: Systematic Review

Amber Carmen Arroyo et al.

Summary: This study reviews the use of behavior change techniques (BCTs) in mHealth apps for sleep and examines their effectiveness. The findings indicate that mHealth apps are effective in improving sleep outcomes. The study also highlights the differences in the types of BCTs used for sleep compared to other health outcomes, emphasizing the need for further research to understand their implementation and mechanisms of action.

JMIR MHEALTH AND UHEALTH (2022)

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Article Clinical Neurology

Chronorexia and Orthosomnia: Towards the development of scales to measure unhealthy obsessions with sleep

J. Van den Bulck

SLEEP MEDICINE (2022)

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Article Clinical Neurology

Sleep dissatisfaction is a potential marker for nomophobia in adults

Haitham A. Jahrami et al.

Summary: This study aimed to explore the relationship between nomophobia and insomnia. The results revealed that sleep dissatisfaction was a shared characteristic of both disorders and had good diagnostic accuracy.

SLEEP MEDICINE (2022)

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Article Clinical Neurology

A Social Media Outage Was Associated with a Surge in Nomophobia, and the Magnitude of Change in Nomophobia during the Outage Was Associated with Baseline Insomnia

Haitham Jahrami et al.

Summary: In this study, we examined the immediate impact of a social media outage on nomophobia and associated symptoms using a longitudinal cohort design. The results showed that symptoms of nomophobia increased significantly during the social media outage, and baseline insomnia scores predicted a surge in the global scores of nomophobia symptoms.

CLOCKS & SLEEP (2022)

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Article Environmental Sciences

The Association between Symptoms of Nomophobia, Insomnia and Food Addiction among Young Adults: Findings of an Exploratory Cross-Sectional Survey

Haitham Jahrami et al.

Summary: This exploratory study found that nomophobia is very common in young adults, particularly in females. Nomophobia is associated with insomnia but not with food addiction.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH (2021)

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Article Endocrinology & Metabolism

Help when you need it: Perspectives of adults with T1D on the support and training they would have wanted when starting CGM

Molly L. Tanenbaum et al.

Summary: This study explored preferences of adults with type 1 diabetes for training and support in using continuous glucose monitoring technology, identifying current gaps in training and potential avenues for enhancing device education and CGM onboarding support.

DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE (2021)

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