Employee Smartphone Usage, Sleep and Productivity
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 15 July 2020
Smartphones are ubiquitous in modern life. They are an essential tool for communication, information storage and retrieval as well as entertainment. Many organisations supply smartphones, as well as similar technology (e.g. tablet PCs and laptops) to their employees in order improve productivity
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School time sleep routine tips
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Last Updated: Thursday, 31 January 2019
Back to School sleep tips.
Now is the time to start getting your children back into the school time sleep routine.
Top tips for getting into a back-to-school sleep schedule:
- Move bedtimes up by 30 minutes each night until you’ve hit the target time for bed.
- Turn off the television
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Are some insomnia symptoms easier to treat than others?
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Last Updated: Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Many insomnia symptoms are readily treated with interventions such as encouraging, teaching, and reinforcing healthy behaviours, as well as eliminating poor sleep habits that contribute to sleep difficulties.
A simple example: removal of technology from the bedroom and eliminating computer use one
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Sleep and mental health
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Life constantly throws up challenges and difficulties. Resilience is the ability to manage and cope with these. It is believed that having enough sleep is an important factor in our ability to deal with adversity and the demands of a busy life. Sleep in many respects is a built in biological source
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: How Does It Affect Sleep?
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Last Updated: Sunday, 16 December 2018
Researchers at Australia's Victoria University Professor Dorothy Bruck and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Melinda Jackson have conducted a review of research related to sleep and chronic fatigue. Their analysis sheds some light on possible reasons for poor sleep among patients with chronic
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Chill Out: Disturbed Sleep
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Last Updated: Friday, 19 July 2019
Poor sleep affects mood & mind.
Chill out: disturbed sleep plays havoc with your mood and mind.
This article has been reproduced with the permission of the author and The Conversation.
A poll by Lifeline indicated almost two-thirds of Australians reported sleep loss because of stress
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Technology & Sleep
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Last Updated: Sunday, 16 December 2018
For quite some time now we have heard about how technology is bad for sleep. Staring at blue light emitting devices such as televisions, computers, tablet PCs and smart phones can all reduce the production of melatonin (our natural sleeping hormone) at night, causing increased sleeping difficulties
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Sleep and happiness
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Last Updated: Sunday, 16 December 2018
If you are a ""worrier"", you are at greater risk of having insomnia.
- Worrying about your sleep can make it worse. This may create a vicious cycle of poor sleep and worrying.
- Worrying may disturb your sleep even you if you are not an anxious person.
- If you have a regular pattern of poor
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$70m Boost for Sleep Research
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Last Updated: Friday, 19 July 2019
Prime Minister, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research.
The Gillard Government will invest over $70 million to help Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) improve the lives of Australians by driving world class research in areas including cell therapy, autism, eye care in
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