Caspian Journal of Reproductive Medicine
Volume:5 Issue: 2, Summer-Autumn 2019

The effect of individual sleep hygiene education on sleep quality components remains largely unknown during pregnancy. This study aimed to assess the effect of a short-term sleep hygiene education during prenatal care visits on pregnant women with poor sleep quality.

A quasi-experimental study, designed as a pre- and post-test with a  single group, was conducted on 32 pregnant woman with poor sleep quality. All the participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The women with good sleep quality and symptoms of severe depression and high stress were excluded from the study. Sleep hygiene education was presented face to face within 25 minutes. A Persian educational booklet, according to the routines of prenatal care visits during the first trimester of pregnancy, was also provided. PSQI, as the primary outcome, and sleep hygiene index (SHI), as the secondary outcome, were measured at the third trimester (34-36 weeks) of pregnancy.

The two components of PSQI (sleep latency and daytime dysfunction) improved, whereas the score for component 3 (sleep duration) worsened. No statistically significant differences were found in the mean global sleep quality scores after the intervention.  The sleep hygiene index significantly improved by sleep hygiene education (P= ≤ 0.0001).

A short-term sleep hygiene education program during prenatal care visits cannot effectively improve sleep quality in pregnant women with poor sleep quality. Thus, it is highly imperative that further considerations for the use of sleep hygiene education during pregnancy be seriously taken into account.

Dysmenorrhea is a frequent medical condition with painful menstrual cramps, which can cause infertility. The aim of this study was to discuss the viewpoints of Abulcasis (Abulcasis) about dysmenorrhea. In addition, Abulcasis’s definitions of dysmenorrhea and his treatment approaches were described and compared with the current terminology of modern medicine.

The literature used for this paper was collected through both hand search of published ancient medicine texts and the electronic databases, Web of Science, PubMed, and Google Scholar. Full-text articles between the years 1926 and 2017 were reviewed in terms of appropriacy.

Albucasis (936-1013 AD), the Andalusian physician, was an early scientist describing dysmenorrhea in his medical textbook, Al-Tasrif. Abulcasis’ points of view about dysmenorrhea were based on humoral theories. He classified menstrual pain into three categories based on the etiologies. Tree proposed pathologies, focusing on decreasing blood flow, are comparable with what is explained about the function of prostaglandins in current medicine. He suggested therapeutic plans including lifestyle modifications, oral and topical herbal remedies.

Current findings depicted that most of the medicinal plants mentioned by Abulcasis can reduce pain in women with dysmenorrhea. In addition, most of his opinions can be compared with current medical concepts.