Papers/PMID:25862116
Melatonin improves sleep in children with epilepsy: a randomized, double-blind, crossover study.
Sleep medicine2015The record
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melatonin — decreases sleep onset latency
Evidence strength: moderate.Findingreplicated ×10“SR melatonin reduced mean sleep latency by 11 min (p=0.02,) and mean WASO by 22 min (p=0.04,) as compared to placebo (Table 3).”
Quoted verbatim from Melatonin improves sleep in children with epilepsy: a randomized, double-blind, crossover study.. - Study
- crossover
- Duration
- 4 weeks
- Dose
- 9 mg sustained-release melatonin 30 minutes before bedtime for four weeks
- Population
- Prepubertal children aged 6-11 years with epilepsy and sleep complaints, on stable antiepileptic drugs
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