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Melatonin decreases sleep onset latency

lowersVery limited evidenceFindingreplicated ×11

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“In the 20 patients who completed the study, sleep onset latency was significantly reduced while subjects were taking melatonin as compared with both placebo and baseline.”
Quoted verbatim from A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study of the effect of exogenous melatonin on delayed sleep phase syndrome.
This finding among the 16 findings on its endpoint

melatonin

Sleep onset latency

lowers

Who
n = 20 · 22 patients (20 completed) with delayed sleep phase syndrome, nocturnal sleep restricted to 24:00-08:00, polysomnography
Dose studied
melatonin 5 mg, taken 19:00-21:00

Very limited evidencePMID 11211063 · 2001

02 · The study

Study
crossover
Participants
20
Duration
4 weeks

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderate
  • limited
  • very limitedthis finding
  • insufficient

03 · The paper

Psychosomatic medicine
What else it reported1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M38PKN8Z7PQJ66VM657EPZJ1