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Cannabis has been recently suggested as a potential treatment for patients with sleep disorders; however, research on the relationship between cannabis and sleep is still in its infancy.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0924933821015054_sec8847\">\n                    <jats:title>Objectives</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The aim of this investigation was to assess whether cannabis use was associated with improved sleep quality.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0924933821015054_sec8848\" sec-type=\"methods\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our study comprised 173 participants, 42 cannabis users and 131 non-cannabis users, who completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the most common self-reported measure of sleep quality. The scale provides a global PSQI score and seven component domain scores, including subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleep medication, and daytime functions.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0924933821015054_sec8849\" sec-type=\"results\">\n                    <jats:title>Results</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Cannabis users self-reported statistically significantly healthier scores than non-cannabis users in the global PSQI as well as the specific domains of subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, as well as sleep disturbances.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0924933821015054_sec8850\" sec-type=\"conclusions\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This preliminary evidence points to the possibility that cannabis could provide effective treatment for patients with sleep disorders. Research into the constituents of cannabis that may have a differential impact on sleep and sleep disorders is warranted.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>","journal":"European Psychiatry","year":2021,"id":602993,"datarank":0.20794415416798362,"base_score":1.3862943611198906,"endowment":1.3862943611198906,"self_citation_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1546692,"name":"G. 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