title: Insomnia education in primary care medicine.
abstract: Insomnia is the complaint of inadequate sleep and can be classified by the nature of the sleep disorder and the duration of the complaint. Most primary care physicians encounter patients with insomnia, but specific diagnosis and optimal treatment modality may present a challenge. Insomnia may also stem from secondary causes such as personal stressors or other illnesses. Primary insomnia is often not addressed in patient encounters that are not directly aimed at sleep problems, and sleep patterns and sleep hygiene are often not a part of the initial examination, partly because of the complicated nature of the disorder. Many aspects of insomnia diagnosis and treatment were addressed in a sleep medicine roundtable held in Naples, Florida, on November 21- 23, 2003, and this Postgraduate Medicine Special Report derives from those discussions.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000628:therapy