title: Use and success of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies for sleep problems.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this web-based, quantitative, descriptive, correlational study was to identify frequency of use and success of strategies to alleviate sleep problems, to determine whether there is any relationship between use and success (perceived effectiveness) of strategies, on the one hand, and adults' gender, age, income, or education, on the other.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected from a web-based survey that examined strategy use and success to alleviate insomnia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The most frequently used strategies and those perceived as successful in alleviating sleep problems included medications and sleep hygiene strategies. Users of some strategies differed from nonusers on gender, age, income, and education.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results from this study can be used to advise patients with sleep problems about choosing strategies to help alleviate those problems to reduce insomnia and to lower the risks of comorbid illness and healthcare costs. This study contributes to the current available findings that focus on determining which strategies are being used to alleviate sleep problems, those perceived as the most successful, and identifying strategy use and success based on demographics.
authors.affiliation: Henry P. Becton School of Nursing and Allied Health, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ 07666, USA. marianne_homsey@fdu.edu
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Homsey
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: O'Connell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D020920:Dyssomnias / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D036301:Qualitative Research; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives