Does your doctor have a sleep protocol for you? Does using a sleeping pill count as good sleep? Numerous times in the hospital I was woken up at 6:30-7 am for a blood draw. I was never fully rested while in the hospital and I couldn't tell if my sleep was being monitored at all.
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2015/11/uninterrupted-sleep-may-be-more-important-amount-sleep?
Getting uninterrupted sleep may be more important to people’s mood
than the overall amount of sleep, according to a new study from Johns
Hopkins University.
For the study, 62 healthy men and women underwent a three-day sleep
experiment in an inpatient clinical research facility. The participants
were randomly selected to either have three consecutive nights of
uninterrupted sleep, later bedtimes, or forced awakenings.
The findings, reported Nov. 1 in the journal Sleep, showed
that by the second night those with the eight forced awakenings saw a
31 percent reduction in positive mood. Those with a delayed bedtime saw
their positive mood decrease by about 12 percent compared to the first
day.
“When your sleep is disrupted throughout the night, you don’t have
the opportunity to progress through the sleep stages to get the amount
of slow-wave sleep that is key to the feeling of restoration,” said lead
study author Patrick Finan, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry
and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine.
After the first night, both those who experienced forced awakenings
and those who had delayed bedtimes showed similar low positive mood and
high negative mood. This was assessed by a standard mood questionnaire
given before bedtimes, where subjects rated how strongly they felt
different positive and negative emotions.
Finan’s team also used a test called polysomnography to determine
sleep stages while participants were sleeping, based on certain brain
and body functions.
Those who had forced awakenings had less deep, slow-wave sleep,
compared with the delayed bedtime groups, and this had a statistically
signification association with low positive mood, according to the
researchers. In addition to reduced energy levels, those in the forced
awakening group had a reduction in feelings of sympathy and
friendliness.
Finan noted that the study results can likely be applied to those who
suffer from insomnia, and that the effects of interrupted sleep can be
cumulative. The researchers believe the study provides temporal evidence
that slow wave sleep deficit could help explain the strong comorbidity
between insomnia and depression.
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