2. Sleep hygiene is a collection of behaviours and environmental conditions that
aim to ensure a restorative and good quality sleep and to avoid or treat
certain sleep disorders.
Healthy sleep habits or behaviours that may help improve the ability to fall
asleep and remain asleep through the night.
Establishing and practising good sleep hygiene throughout the day impacts
both the quality and quantity of sleep you get each night.
12. Continuing with the sleep advice, we have to remember that this depends a
great deal on learned habits and sometimes it is better to respect these habits
unless they are very disruptive than try to change them.
Don’t have to change everything at once; small steps can move toward better
sleep hygiene.
It’s also important to know that improving sleep hygiene won’t always resolve
sleeping problems, but other treatments are usually necessary as well.
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