How do individuals sleep around the world? Results from a single-day survey in ten countries

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-13

  Soldatos, Constantin R ^a   Allaert, François A ^b   Ohta, Tatsuro ^c   Dikeos, Dimitris G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Daytime sleepiness; Insomnia; Prevalence; Sleep; Sleep disorders; Survey

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GREEN TEA EXTRACT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE;

AGING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SLEEP STAGES; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 12744272114     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2004.10.006     Document Type: Article

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