Thesis About Insomnia

Insomnia: Annotated Bibliography
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Insomnia: Annotated Bibliography
Thesis Statement:
Insomnia is primarily caused by people’s lifestyles and affects people’s lives in the long term.
Martin, D. (2016, July 14). Tips to deal with those middle of the night bouts of insomnia. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1RreYWS
In the video, Danielle Martin, a family physician, gives tips on how to defeat insomnia. She agrees that insomnia is a major problem in the population, but warns against the use of sleeping pills which can be addictive. The tips that she gives include going to bed at the same time every night and waking up at the same time every morning, even during the weekends, creating a regular before-bed routine, having a dimly lit bedroom, and doing exercise during the day.
Fernandez-Mendoza, J., & Vgontzas, A. (2013). Insomnia and its impact on physical and mental health. Current Psychiatry Report, 15(12), 418.
Even if a lot of researches have been done on the effect of insomnia on a person’s mental health, not much has been found in its effect on physical health. The authors of the study found out that insomnia with short duration of sleep is related to a higher risk of neurocognitive morbidity, cardiometabolic morbidity and even death. On the other hand, insomnia backed by normal duration of sleep leads to cognitive-emotional arousal and sleep misperception, but no physiological or neurocognitive signs are experienced. Sleep duration should be made an important part when evaluating and diagnosing insomnia.
Helbig, A. K., Stockl, D., Heier, M., Ladwig, K.-H., & Meisinger, C. (2015). Symptoms of Insomnia and Sleep Duration and Their Association with Incident Strokes: Findings from the Population-Based MONICA/KORA Augsburg Cohort Study. PLoS ONE, 10(7), e0134480.
The study was done in order to find the relationship of insomnia and stroke. It involved men and women from the general Germany population. The subjects were asked questions about their sleep behavior, health and medical history. Happenings of stroke and death were then later followed up. In the following 14 years, strokes were reported in 917 subjects with 207 of them suffering fatal stroke. The incidences did not show any...