Sleep Disturbance and Sleep Hygiene

Sleep disturbance is a very common presentation in our current modern life among adult population; in western countries at least 1 in 4 their sleep is disturbed.

Causes of sleep disturbance could be broadly divided into 3 main categories:

• Environmental/social causes, for example: moving to a new job or country,

external noises or unfavorable room temperature etc.

• Some physical conditions and/or their treatments: for example chronic

joint pain or in some heart conditions. Some medications have sleep disturbance as one of their possible side effects, for example, simvastatin and