News
What counts as a good night’s sleep? A NPR radio interview
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Professor Nicole Tang about sleep quality and why it's difficult to define and measure.
Prof Tang talks to the New Scientist
"Highlight: We often obsess about nighttime routines for good sleep, but mounting evidence shows that what we do during our waking hours is also important – a more holistic view that could ease the modern pressure to create a perfect environment for when our heads hit the pillow"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535272-800-why-sleep-quality-is-so-important-and-so-difficult-to-measure/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535273-000-what-nine-sleep-researchers-do-to-get-their-best-nights-rest/
New paper on mental defeat as a predictor of future suicide risk
New paper on self-compassion and chronic pain
Hot off the press. A new paper - brilliantly led by @jennalgillett.bsky.social and Arman Rakhimov - validates the use of the Self-Compassion Scale Short-Form in chronic pain and exploring its initial relationships with pain outcomes.
🧪Open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20494637241312070
PBAS mediates the pain-insomnia link
Pain often goes hand in hand with trouble sleeping. Previously, our lab found that people with chronic pain tend to think about their sleep through the lens of pain and developed the PBAS to measure pain-related beliefs and attitudes about sleep (https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.6130).
Thanks to our colleagues in Korea (led by Prof Seockhoon Chung), we now also know that PBAS mediates the association between pain and insomnia. Using the Korean PBAS, they found the concept useful in explaining the pain-insomnia link in Asian countries/cultures.
New paper published in Behavioural Sleep Medicine: https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2024.2441786
