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Melatonin decreases sleep onset latency

lowersVery limited evidenceFindingreplicated ×11

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“By the end of the double-blind treatment, the PRM group had significantly shorter sleep onset latency (9 min; P = 0.02) compared with the placebo group and scored significantly better in the Critical Flicker Fusion Test (P = 0.008) without negatively affecting sleep structure and architecture.”
Quoted verbatim from The effect of prolonged-release melatonin on sleep measures and psychomotor performance in elderly patients with insomnia.
This finding among the 16 findings on its endpoint

melatonin

Sleep onset latency

lowers

Who
Adults aged 55 years and older with primary insomnia (DSM-IV)
Dose studied
prolonged-release melatonin 2 mg nightly

Very limited evidencePMID 19584739 · 2009

02 · The study

Study
RCT
Duration
3 weeks

Evidence, by strength

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

03 · The paper

International clinical psychopharmacology
What else it reported1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M38RZDPGJZJAM5M22YGCXT4D