ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2018
Insomnia Really Hurts: Effect of a Bad Night's Sleep on Pain Increases With Insomnia Severity.
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- Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Comorbid With Chronic Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
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- The role of sleep difficulties in the relation between pain and smoking cessation processes.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Clinical outcomes and psychosomatic correlates of integrative inpatient care based on Traditional Korean Medicine for acute neck and low back pain following traffic accidents: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- A lesson for post-COVID healthcare: assessment of physical and psychosocial risk factors on perceived pain intensity among urban individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The endocannabinoid N-arachidonoyl dopamine is critical for hyperalgesia induced by chronic sleep disruption.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Assessing Resilience to Sleep Loss Among the Italian Population: A 13-Item Model of the Iowa Resistance to Sleeplessness Test (iREST).Nature and science of sleep · 2023Article
- Occupational therapists' perspectives on current practice in chronic pain and sleep disturbances.The British journal of occupational therapy · 2022Article
- A mysterious sensation about sleep and health: the role of interoception.BMC public health · 2021Article
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- Disturbed Sleep Connects Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Somatization: A Network Analysis Approach.Journal of traumatic stress · 2021Article
- Poor sleep quality among newly diagnosed head and neck cancer patients: prevalence and associated factors.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
- The Epidemiology of Insomnia and Sleep Duration Across Mental and Physical Health: The SHoT Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Sleep in the United States Military.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Review
- The Pain-to-Well-Being Relationship in Patients Experiencing Chronic Orofacial Pain.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
- From being restrained to recapturing vitality: non-western immigrant women's experiences of undergoing vitamin D treatment after childbirth.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2019Article
- Research trends of acupuncture therapy on insomnia in two decades (from 1999 to 2018):a bibliometric analysis.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2019Review
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Abstract
Insomnia and chronic pain are highly prevalent conditions and are often comorbid. Somatic complaints other than pain are also often observed in insomnia. Poor sleep and pain are known to mutually reinforce each other. However, it is unknown whether the habitual severity of insomnia modulates the acute effect of a particularly bad night's sleep on the next day's pain severity, and whether it modulates the acute effect of pain on the following night's sleep quality. Using data from 3,508 volunteers (2,684 female, mean age 50.09 y), we addressed these questions in addition to the associations between the habitual severity of insomnia, somatic complaints, and pain. Results indicated that people suffering from more severe habitual insomnia showed stronger mutual acute within-day reactivity of pain and poor sleep quality. The same increased reactivity was found in people with more severe habitual pain. Interestingly, the acute within-day mutual reactivity of pain and sleep quality showed consistent asymmetry. Pain worsened more after a particularly bad night's sleep than it improved after a particularly good night's sleep. Likewise, sleep worsened more after a day with more-than-usual pain than it improved after a day with less-than-usual pain. Future interventions may profit from addressing this asymmetric mutual reactivity especially in people with severe comorbid insomnia and chronic pain.
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