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Specific Populations
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Complaints about the quality or
quantity of sleep are extremely frequent in the population: while everyone has
experienced the odd sleepless night, more than 30% of the population claims to
have problems initiating or maintaining sleep
Although only half of these subjects consult a doctor, insomnia and sleep
disorders represent a real problem.
If we want to improve the way sleep disorders are treated medically, we have
first of all to be able to recognize them, which means knowing more about them.
To do this, a dual assessment is required: what are the significance and
consequences of these disorders in terms of health, and what is the impact of
the different therapeutic strategies?
The Sleep-EVAL system can be used
in various contexts. During the past years, it was widely used in:
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general
population surveys,
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the
offices of physicians,
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the
sleep disorders clinics and
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in
the hospital yards.
The Sleep-EVAL system is useful
to test classifications by assessing the symptomatic constellation underlying a
diagnosis.
The use of Sleep-EVAL ensures that the full spectrum of the classification is
covered, including rare diagnoses, which do not necessarily receive the
physicians immediate attention.
Sleep-EVAL also ensures that at least the minimal criteria for a diagnosis are
present and makes it possible to explore the symptomatic constellations of
specific diagnoses.
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Sleep-EVAL
Research
