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[What do the doctors of different specialties know about sleep disorders and their treatment]
E Z Yakupov1, E A Alexandrova1, M M Lesheva1
1Kazan State Medical University, Kazan.
Objective:
To assessdoctor's knowledge on the relevance of the problem of sleep disorders, methods of their diagnosis and treatment.
Material And 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.
Conclusion:
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.
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