Course Duration: 30+ minutes
Mental Health Resilience – Sleep for Better Mental Health
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This e-Learning course provides a greater awareness of how sleep contributes to overall health and wellbeing. It looks at some easy-to-implement tips to help you sleep better.
Sleep is a crucial habit that underpins success in professional and personal lives. It is critical to our mental and physical well-being. By supporting a work environment more conducive to increased wellbeing employers will go far in creating a more productive, healthier and safer work environment.
Course Content
Sleep for Better Mental Health
This online course covers the following sections:
- The importance of sleep
- How much sleep do you need?
- Why you might not get enough sleep
- Sleep and fatigue tips
- Putting it into action
Learning Outcomes
By taking this course, participants will have a greater awareness of:
- The importance of good sleep for better mental health
- The negative effects of sleep deprivation
- How sleep works and how to get more of it
- Common factors that causes sleep loss
- Simple tips to get better sleep
Why Sleep for Mental Health Course is Vital
Inadequate sleep is associated with a wide variety of problems such as road accidents, anxiety and psychiatric illnesses, drug abuse, increased mortality, increased healthcare costs and direct economic costs. A decline in overall wellbeing, performance and productivity are also linked to insufficient sleep.
According to the study conducted by the mental health foundation, nearly half of adults and around 65% of teenagers agreed that a lack of sleep was adversely impacting their mental health.
The negative impact of fatigue, poor sleep and sleep deprivation are well documented. It’s been shown to damage our memory and cripple our thinking, problem-solving and reasoning abilities. Sleep deprivation also affects our motor skills.
Whilst there is no specific legislation regarding sleep, employers are required to maintain their employees’ health and safety under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Supporting a well-rested workforce is critical to achieving this goal.
Benefits of Sleep for Mental Health Online Training Course
Choosing Human Focus for health and safety e-learning course provides the following benefits to the users:
- CPD certified content and certification
- Supports compliance with relative legislation
- Supports a workplace culture of positive mental health
- Lowers the risk for serious health problems
- Helps to improve workplace health, safety and wellbeing
- Concise yet informative presentation style
Course Details
| Study length | 30+ minutes |
| Approval body | CPD certified |
| Target Audience | All staff members - intermediate |
| Format | One interactive module with an end of course test |
| Assessment | Online multiple-choice test |
| Certification | Online certificate issued immediately on course completion |
| Certification Validity Duration | 3 years |
Frequently Asked Questions
Sleep plays an important role in promoting good mental health as well as overall health. It allows our body to repair itself, the brain to consolidate memory, and to process information. On the other hand, poor sleep can lead to a lot of health problems both physical and mental. It weakens the immune system, increases the chances of stress, depression and anxiety.
Some of the major advantages of getting quality sleep include:
- Minimises the stress
- Improves the mood
- Helps maintain a healthy weight
- Lowers the chances of getting sick
Sleep deprivation can leave you feeling irritable and exhausted in the short term. Long-term health concerns may arise due to poor or lack of sleep. Some of the mental health problems that have adverse effects of lack of sleep are:
- Stress – Poor sleep quality can make it difficult to cope with stress even in small amounts. You may find yourself short-tempered or irritated by day-to-day activities. This stress could be a sign of sleepless nights.
- Depression – Sleep problems can also be a cause of depression. One study shows that people with insomnia experience a risk of developing depression more than those who have good sleeping habits.
- Anxiety – As with other psychological conditions, sleep and anxiety also correlate. It is found that people with sleep deprivation issues are more likely to have feelings of anxiety. If this is not treated it can become a severe mental health issue.
Sufficient sleep facilitates the mental processing of information. It also has a strong connection to the physical which further bolsters mental health. Adequate night sleep can provide better support to mental health as well.
Other benefits of mental health are that proper sleep:
- Helps the brain evaluate thoughts
- Promote positive thoughts
- Regulate blood sugar level
- Reduce stress and inflammation
- Helps the brain repair itself
Studies show that disrupted sleep can help predict the signs of mental illnesses and treating these problems can help promote better mental health. Understanding sleep disturbance as a potential cause of mental health concerns is important to reduce the signs of such illnesses.
You can start by taking small steps. The first and foremost step in this regard is to know the importance of proper sleep. Treating sleep-deprived mental health issues can also help improve the quality of health and life.
Human Focus offers the following programmes under the Mental Health toolkit:
