Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice
March 2024
Ilona Kaisti, Petri Kulmala, Mirka Hintsanen et al.
The number of studies on the effects of mindfulness on healthcare professionals is increasing. The main aim of this study was to collate the quantitative results of original studies analyzing the effects of mindfulness-based interventions on a variety of outcomes in medical students. We also analyzed how the study design and characteristics of the intervention affect the results, and identified...
Translational Psychiatry
February 27, 2024
Hanna M. Ollila, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Katri Kantojärvi et al.
18 citations
Nightmares are vivid, extended, and emotionally negative or negative dreams that awaken the dreamer. While sporadic nightmares and bad dreams are common and generally harmless, frequent nightmares often reflect underlying pathologies of emotional regulation. Indeed, insomnia, depression, anxiety, or alcohol use have been associated with nightmares in epidemiological and clinical studies....
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
November 9, 2019
Hanna M. Ollila, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Katri Kantojärvi et al.
5 citations
preprint
ABSTRACT Nightmares are vivid, extended and extremely dysphoric dreams that awaken the dreamer. Twin studies indicate that nightmare frequency has a heritability between 36 and 51% providing evidence for genetic factors underlying predisposition to nightmares. Furthermore, while cross-sectional epidemiological findings suggest that heavy alcohol usage, traumatic experiences and psychiatric...
Scientific Reports
March 15, 2017
Nils Sandman, Katja Valli, Erkki Kronholm et al.
Nightmares are intensive dreams with negative emotional tone. Frequent nightmares can pose a serious clinical problem and in 2001, Tanskanen et al. found that nightmares increase the risk of suicide. However, the dataset used by these authors included war veterans in whom nightmare frequency - and possibly also suicide risk - is elevated. Therefore, re-examination of the association between...
Sleep
July 1, 2013
Nils Sandman, Katja Valli, Erkki Kronholm et al.
Study objectives: To investigate the prevalence of nightmares among the Finnish general adult population during 1972-2007 and the association between nightmare prevalence and symptoms of insomnia, depression, and anxiety in World War II veterans. Design: Eight independent cross-sectional population surveys of the National FINRISK Study conducted in Finland in 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997,...