title: [What do the doctors of different specialties know about sleep disorders and their treatment].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assessdoctor's knowledge on the relevance of the problem of sleep disorders, methods of their diagnosis and treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  The survey was conducted among90physicians of different the rapeuticspecialties of Kazan medical institutions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The doctors believe that main causes of sleep disorders are stressors (20%), depression (13%), neurosis (13%), chronic diseases (13%), asthenia (10%), pain (10%). An analysis of treatment prescribed to patients with sleep disorders revealed large differences.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Physicians are not well informed about the problems of sleep disorders, have a small idea of the methods of sleepresearch and drugs for their treatment as well as of a sequence of operations that should be used to resolve this problem.
authors.affiliation: Kazan State Medical University, Kazan.
authors.forename: E Z
authors.initials: EZ
authors.lastname: Yakupov
authors.affiliation: Kazan State Medical University, Kazan.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Alexandrova
authors.affiliation: Kazan State Medical University, Kazan.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Lesheva
mesh_terms: D001247:Asthenia / Q000150:complications; D002908:Chronic Disease; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D010146:Pain / Q000150:complications; D010820:Physicians; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires