Does Improving Marital Quality Improve Sleep? Results From a Marital Therapy Trial

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 330-343

  Troxel, Wendy M ^a   Braithwaite, Scott R ^b   Sandberg, Jonathan G ^b   Holt Lunstad, Julianne ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; MARRIAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALITY; SLEEP; SPOUSE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL THERAPY; MARRIAGE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SPOUSES;

EID: 84964540396     PISSN: 15402002     EISSN: 15402010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2015.1133420     Document Type: Article

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