Melatonin therapy in shift workers with difficulty falling asleep: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover field study

Work

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 225-230

  Sadeghniiat Haghighi, Khosro ^a,b   Bahrami, Hamid ^a,b   Aminian, Omid ^a,b   Meysami, Alipasha ^b   Khajeh Mehrizi, Ahmad ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; sleep efficiency; sleep onset latency; somnowatch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989329118     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-162376     Document Type: Article

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