insomnia
Let an agent explain insomnia and its types and causes, relay sleep hygiene and treatment guidance from health bodies, describe assessment in general terms, and route personal medical questions to clinicians.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What insomnia is.
Types
Types and causes.
Types
Types.
- What are the types of insomnia, and what causes and perpetuates them? definition
- Is the user asking about their own sleep, which needs a clinician for persistent problems? boundary
Assessment
Assessment.
Assessment
Assessment.
- How is insomnia assessed with history, sleep diaries and, when needed, sleep studies, according to guidelines? provenance
- Which entry fits sleep medicine? action
Manage Management.
Hygiene
Sleep hygiene.
Hygiene
Hygiene.
- What sleep hygiene measures do health bodies recommend? provenance
- Which entry fits sleep hygiene? action
Treatment
Treatment.
Treatment
Treatment.
- What do guidelines say about cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia and about medication? provenance
- Is urgent care needed, for example with severe distress? boundary
Context Related conditions and effects.
Conditions
Related conditions.
Conditions
Conditions.
- How does insomnia relate to sleep apnoea, depression, anxiety and pain? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific condition? action
Effects
Effects.
Effects
Effects.
- What are the effects of insomnia on health, safety and work, according to research? provenance
- Which findings are uncertain? boundary
Learn Epidemiology and history.
Epidemiology
Epidemiology.
Epidemiology
Epidemiology.
- How common is insomnia, and how does it vary by age and group? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
History
History.
History
History.
- How has understanding and treatment of insomnia developed? provenance
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Other names and narrower kinds
- insomnia with sleep apnea, TM Insomnia Treatment, transient disorder of initiating or maintaining sleep, primary insomnia, persistent disorder of initiating or maintaining sleep, hyposomnia, altitude insomnia, middle-of-the-night insomnia, fatal familial insomnia
What it is Filled
A sleep disorder characterised by difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or waking too early despite adequate opportunity, causing daytime impairment, classified as transient or short-term and persistent or chronic, as primary or associated with conditions such as sleep apnoea, and assessed by history and sleep diaries; insomnia is common, is treated with cognitive behavioural therapy as the recommended first-line approach and sometimes medication, and is addressed through sleep hygiene guidance from health bodies.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain insomnia and its types and causes, relay sleep hygiene and treatment guidance from health bodies, describe assessment in general terms, and route personal medical questions to clinicians.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Sleep difficulty
- Daytime impairment
- Duration classes
- Behavioural treatment
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose insomnia or recommend sleeping medication for a person.
- Promote unproven sleep products or supplements.
- Track a person's sleep without consent.
- Ignore signs of depression or crisis behind sleep complaints.
Only with a human decision
- Any treatment decision for a person's sleep disorder.
May
- Explain insomnia and sleep hygiene from health sources.
- Suggest seeing a clinician when sleep problems persist.
Moral aspects Filled
- Insomnia harms health and work, and sleep aids carry risks.
- Sleep data is health data.
Who is affected
- People with insomnia
- Shift workers
- Families
Owners Filled
Steward
Each person over their own health; clinicians answer for treatment.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q102187069 - registry parent class
related
- sleep disturbance - category
- stress - a common contributing factor
- headache - a related symptom
- drug - medications used in treatment
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.insomnia
- Wikidata: Q1869874 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1869874)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep
- Transient or chronic
- Sleep apnoea is a breathing disorder; short sleep by choice is not insomnia
- Not physical; reported sleep difficulty.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain types and causes
- relay guidance
- describe assessment
- route personal questions
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents giving personal medical advice
- Overreliance on medication
- Missing underlying conditions
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines for insomnia
- Medicines regulation for hypnotics
- Sleep medicine professional standards
Context of use required Filled
- Difficulty sleeping with daytime impairment.
- transient and short-term insomnia
- chronic insomnia
- primary insomnia
- insomnia with sleep apnoea or other conditions
- hyposomnia and related patterns
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1869874: insomnia - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Insomnia - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should chronic insomnia be a separate entry?
- How should guidelines be linked?
- How should sleep services be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1869874/spec.json