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On-orbit sleep problems of astronauts and countermeasures

Overview of attention for article published in Military Medical Research, May 2018
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#38 of 443)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (86th percentile)
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Title
On-orbit sleep problems of astronauts and countermeasures
Published in
Military Medical Research, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40779-018-0165-6
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Authors

Bin Wu, Yue Wang, Xiaorui Wu, Dong Liu, Dong Xu, Fei Wang

Abstract

Sufficient sleep duration and good sleep quality are crucial to ensure normal physical and mental health, cognition and work performance for the common people, as well as astronauts. On-orbit sleep problem is very common among astronauts and has potential detrimental influences on the health of crewmembers and the safety of flight missions. Sleep in space is becoming a new medical research frontier. In this review we summarized on-orbit sleep problems of astronauts and six kinds of causes, and we presented the effects of lack of sleep on performance as well as mental and physical health, then we proposed seven kinds of countermeasures for sleep disturbance in spaceflight, including pharmacologic interventions, light treatment, crew selection and training, Traditional Chinese Medicine and so on. Furthermore, we discussed and oriented the prospect of researches on sleep in space.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 139 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 26 19%
Student > Master 14 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 9%
Researcher 8 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Other 23 17%
Unknown 50 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 11%
Engineering 14 10%
Neuroscience 11 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 4%
Other 30 22%
Unknown 57 41%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 February 2024.
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#2,385,072
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#38
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#48,167
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#2
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