Enjoy This Week’s CommonHealth Weekly Wellnote

Insufficient or interrupted sleep can have serious health consequences, but sleep problems aren’t always easy to identify. For that reason, a sleep journal is a valuable tool for tracking sleep, monitoring sleep habits, and documenting sleeping problems. Both patients and doctors find information in patient-kept sleep journals useful.

By keeping a record of sleep, the journal makes it possible to calculate total sleep time. A sleep record also helps people identify sleep disruptions and other factors that can influence sleep quality.

Identifying details about habits that affect sleep can show patterns that help explain sleeping problems. For healthcare providers, the concrete entries in a sleep journal are often more reliable and usable than a general recollection about sleep habits.

To keep the most accurate sleep record, fill it out carefully every day. Staying current and updating your journal as you go helps avoid any gaps in your memory. For that reason, you want to keep your sleep journal and a pen in an easily accessible place where you’ll be reminded to fill it out every day.

For more information, check out our electronic booklet, Better Nights Ahead.

Stay Well!

If you have questions regarding this week’s communication or the CommonHealth program, please reach out to your respective campus coordinator below:

Alexandria-Kathy Clement or Najeeb Baha
Annandale-Regina Sanders
Fairfax/College Staff-Angel Mori
Loudoun-Gert Heslin
Manassas-ThuyTien Ngo-Nguyen
Springfield Medical Education Campus (MEC)-Corrine House
Woodbridge-Georgette Harris

Submitted by:
Charlotte Calobrisi, AVP of HR, CCalobrisi@nvcc.edu