Delayed Sleep Phase
When You Can’t Fall Asleep, Maybe it’s Your Clock That’s Broken
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CME Information
CME Information
Learning Objectives:
After participating in this educational activity, participants should be better able to
- Recognize and diagnose delayed sleep phase disorder (DSPD) by taking a sleep history and using a sleep log if necessary
- Communicate with patients and educate them about the underlying nature of their unique circadian rhythm and disorder and what they need to do to remedy it
- Manage DSPD patients for treatment with melatonin, light and dark therapy, chronotherapy, and patient education
Delayed sleep phase disorder (DSPD) is the most common circadian rhythm sleep disorder and may be present in as many as 10% of adolescence though the numbers decline in older cohorts. It is under recognized, misdiagnosed as insomnia, and too often mistreated resulting in excessive daytime sleepiness, social, work, and scholastic dysfunction, and even depression.
It is easily diagnosed with a focused sleep history and/or sleep log and usually can be successfully treated with a combination of patient education, melatonin, light and dark therapy, and occasionally chronotherapy.
Published on July 5, 2011
I completed the .5 cme and completed the second part 1.75 cme but when I pressed continue at the end “an error” keept appearing. Did it several times to no avail.
How can I get the credit for the activity?
I had the same problem as above, I completed the .5 CME, and also the second part, but by using the print version, since the slideshow didn’t work when I tried it. At the end when I tried to continue, I got an error message also. How do I complete the activity to get the credit?
We apologize for the complications you had on this activity. As we have been repairing the coding to another problem, it caused unintentional consequences to this one. We have fixed it, so it is working fine now. We’ll continue running tests to ensure there are no more issues.