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Iuliana Hartescu

Lecturer in Psychology, Loughborough University
Verified email at lboro.ac.uk
Cited by 446

Increased physical activity improves sleep and mood outcomes in inactive people with insomnia: a randomized controlled trial

I Hartescu, K Morgan… - Journal of sleep research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
While high levels of activity and exercise training have been associated with improvements
in sleep quality, minimum levels of activity likely to improve sleep outcomes have not been …

Regular physical activity and insomnia: an international perspective

I Hartescu, K Morgan - Journal of sleep research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Both very low and very high levels of regular physical activity have been associated with
degraded sleep quality. Cross‐national variations in habitual physical activity levels …

Sleep quality and recommended levels of physical activity in older people

I Hartescu, K Morgan… - Journal of aging and …, 2016 - journals.humankinetics.com
A minimum level of activity likely to improve sleep outcomes among older people has not
previously been explored. In a representative UK sample aged 65+(n= 926), cross-sectional …

Sleep duration and all-cause mortality: links to physical activity and prefrailty in a 27-year follow up of older adults in the UK

K Morgan, I Hartescu - Sleep medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives To assess sleep duration-mortality relationships across a 27-year follow-up
period in a well characterized random sample of older people, and to test the hypothesis that …

Sleep extension and metabolic health in male overweight/obese short sleepers: A randomised controlled trial

I Hartescu, DJ Stensel, AE Thackray… - Journal of Sleep …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
While limited evidence suggests that longer sleep durations can improve metabolic health in
habitual short sleepers, there is no consensus on how sustained sleep extension can be …

Behavioural, medical & environmental interventions to improve sleep quality for mental health inpatients in secure settings: a systematic review & meta-analysis

PM Gardiner, FE Kinnafick, KC Breen… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental health, the effect of
interventions to improve sleep quality for inpatients from secure psychiatric settings has not …

Sleep duration and sleep efficiency in UK long-distance heavy goods vehicle drivers

AP Sherry, SA Clemes, YL Chen… - Occupational and …, 2022 - oem.bmj.com
Objectives To profile sleep duration and sleep efficiency in UK long-distance heavy goods
vehicle (HGV) drivers and explore demographic, occupational and lifestyle predictors of …

Sleep quality and adverse incidents in secure mental health settings

I Hartescu, PM Gardiner, A Girardi… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Sleep disturbance has been associated with adverse incidents among male forensic
inpatients. This study examined relationships between sleep quality and the …

Altered Core Temperature and Salivary Melatonin in Athletes with a Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

CJ Murphy, I Hartescu, CA Leicht… - … Journal of Sports …, 2023 - thieme-connect.com
Sleep disturbances are common in athletes with a cervical spinal cord injury (cSCI) and may
be associated with circadian alterations. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep characteristics of highly trained wheelchair rugby athletes with and without a cervical spinal cord injury during the competitive season

CJ Murphy, I Hartescu, IE Roberts, CA Leicht… - Frontiers in Sports and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sleep behaviors although significantly relevant to exercise recovery are poorly
characterized in Para-sport athletes. Therefore, the main aims of this study were to describe …