Mindfulness and RelaxationTraining for Insomnia (MRTI) on Postmenopausal Women: a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Groups will be assessed by actigraphy, polysomnography and questionnaires for assessing stress, depression, anxiety, quality of life, self-pity, subjective states such as sedation and other physical or mental attitudes, vitality, emotional state and attentiveness. Moreover, prospective memory participants will be evaluated by means of a task as close as possible to real life conditions of the volunteers (green) and also the working memory is assessed by a test called specific counting span. Menopausal women will be evaluated for the presence or absence of bruxism compared to ordinary meditators, all postmenopausal.

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria for postmenopausal women with insomnia:

• be available to attend any training program of mindfulness (1 time per week for 8 weeks) and perform the suggested practices home.
• be available to perform the tests at home polysomnography (overnight) and other tests.
• Be available to perform the blood collection
• meet the criteria established in accordance with DSM-IV-TR for insomnia
• age 50 to 65 years.
• Women in menopause: women presenting with absence of menstruation in the past year and either FSH greater than 30.
• Have a BMI value lower than 30.
• Not having undergone any previous treatment against insomnia.
• Not having made use of hypnotics for at least 15 days.

Inclusion criteria

for women without menopausal insomnia

• be available to perform the examinations polysomnographic (overnight) and other tests.
• To meditators, having trained as a practice of mindfulness meditation for at least 3 years 3 times a week.
• Age: 50 to 65 years
• Being a woman and being in menopause: women presenting failures or lack of regular menstrual periods last year.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria for menopausal women with insomnia

• being under drug treatment, subjects will not be accepted that use of benzodiazepines, antihistamines, hypnotics, herbal sleeping pills, sedatives, antidepressants, antipsychotics, stimulants (amphetamine, caffeine, modafinil), corticosteroids, bronchodilators and beta blockers.
• being under psychological or psychiatric treatment.
• present history of neurological or psychiatric diseases such as severe psychotic disorders.
• having other sleep disorders like narcolepsy, sleep-disordered breathing, sleep apnea with an index greater than 15 / h, circadian rhythm disorder or parasomnias.
• 4 years of schooling below complete primary school

Exclusion criteria

for menopausal women without complaints of insomnia:

• being under drug treatment, subjects will not be accepted that use of benzodiazepines, antihistamines, hypnotics, herbal sleeping pills, sedatives, antidepressants, antipsychotics, stimulants (amphetamine, caffeine, modafinil), corticosteroids, bronchodilators and beta blockers.
• being in psychological treatments.
• having had contact with a meditation technique.
• present history of neurological or psychiatric diseases such as severe psychotic disorders, as well as anxiety and depression.
• women presenting failures or regular period last year.
• 4 years of schooling below complete primary school
• submit any sleep disorders