STUDY OBJECTIVES The impact of hospitalization on sleep in late-life is underexplored. The current study examined patterns of sleep quality before, during, and following hospitalization, investigated predictors of sleep quality patterns, and examined predictors of classification discordance between two suggested clinical cutoffs used to demarcate poor/good sleep. METHODS This study included o...

background: sleep is an important aspect of healthy lifestyle. one of the prevalent diabetes mellitus-related non-vascular complications is sleep problems. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a non-pharmacological care plan designed based on the continuous care model (ccm) on sleep quality in patients with type ii diabetes with two month follow up. methods: this randomized c...

BACKGROUND Many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) suffer from poor sleep quality. We hypothesized that poor sleep quality in otherwise stable patients predicted exacerbations in these patients. METHODS This is a secondary analysis of the results of a previously published randomized trial of azithromycin in 1,117 patients with moderate to severe COPD who were clinicall...

BACKGROUND Sleep disorders and depression, accompanied by reduced quality of life and increased mortality are the most common psychological problems in dialysis patients. This study was conducted with the aim to investigate depression and sleep quality and their association with some demographic and clinical factors in hemodialysis patients. METHOD This descriptive-correlative study was condu...

background & aim: the aim of this clinical trial study was to evaluate sleep quality in patients with chronic lung disease and the role of controlled breathing to improve the quality of sleep. methods & materials: sixty-four patients with chronic lung disease in two group (experimental and control group) enrolled in a 7 weeks. before interventions, the pittsburgh sleep quality index (psqi) and ...

OBJECTIVES Sleep problems represent a worldwide health concern but their prevalence and impacts are unknown in most non-European/North American countries. This study aimed to evaluate sleep-wake patterns, sleep quality and potential correlates of poor sleep in a sample of the urban Georgian population. METHODS Analyses are based on 395 volunteers (267 females, 128 males, aged 20-60 years) of ...

Sleep quality decreases with aging and thus sleep complaints are prevalent in older adults, particularly for those with cognitive impairment and dementia. For older adults, emerging evidence suggests poor sleep quality increases risk of developing cognitive impairment and dementia. Given the aging population-and the impending economic burden associated with increasing numbers of dementia patien...

OBJECTIVE Analyzing the quality of sleep of hypertensive patients registered in the national registration system and monitoring of hypertensive patients. METHODS A cross-sectional study of quantitative and descriptive analyses with 280 hypertensive patients registered in the National Program of Hypertension and Diabetes of the Federal Government in the months from August to October 2011. Ques...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to determine what symptom components or conditions of insomnia are related to subjective feelings of insomnia, low health-related quality of life (HRQOL), or depression. METHOD Data from 7,027 Japanese adults obtained using an Internet-based questionnaire survey was analyzed to examine associations between demographic variables and each sleep difficulty sym...