The most obvious is sleepiness; not sleeping enough leads to feeling sleepy and a strong desire for sleep.
The five scales of the OSA used were sleepiness, sleep maintenance, worry, integrated sleep feeling, and sleep initiation.
The only common side effect is sleepiness when treatment is initiated.
Since one of the main symptoms of narcolepsy is sleepiness, it seemed plausible that a drug blocking hypocretin receptors would cause sleepiness, an effect that might be useful in treating insomnia.
When change from the 4th night was checked, sleepiness, worry, integrated sleep feeling and sleep initiation by SQ showed habituation of sleep to noise.
My mother wavered slightly in her traffic lane, but whether it was from sleepiness or emotion I'll never know.
The primary dependent variable was daytime sleepiness.
The reason for backing up SRS with other measures of sleepiness was that self-reported sleepiness suffers from methodological limitations.
Daytime sleepiness was assessed using Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS) score [ 11].
