Prevalence of sleep disorders in patients with advanced cancer: a cross-sectional study.

Autor:	Gyawali S; Department of Internal Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital., Tiwari S; Central Hospital., Sah GS; BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal., Panthi B; Department of Internal Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital., Upreti A; Department of Internal Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital., Pokhrel B; Department of Internal Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital., Gyawali B; Curative Service Division, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Population., Khanal P; Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Kathmandu., Shrestha R; Department of Internal Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital., Paudel B; Department of Internal Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) [Ann Med Surg (Lond)] 2024 May 28; Vol. 86 (7), pp. 3954-3958. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 28 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.1097/MS9.0000000000002232
Abstrakt:	Background: Patients with advanced cancer are more susceptible to develop sleep disorders like insomnia, restlessness, hypersomnolence, and sleep apnea due to a series of stressful events and side effects of chemotherapeutic agents. Poor sleep quality is associated with bad cancer outcomes and substandard quality of life. The authors assessed the prevalence of sleep disorders among advanced cancer patients in a tertiary center in Nepal. Methods: Patients with stage three and four solid malignancies were enrolled from February 2023 to July 2023 to assess their sleep status. The data were collected using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire, analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 27, and subgroup exploration was done to assess the relationship of poor sleep quality with gender, marital status, malignancy type, and treatment received. An ethical clearance was obtained from the Institutional Review Committee (IRC). Results: The authors evaluated data from 357 patients in the study. Of them, 58.3% were female and 41.7% were male. The mean age of the patients was 51.1 years. Among total cancer patients, 56% had significant sleep disorders. A significant association was observed between the quality of sleep and gender, type of malignancy, and treatment methods ( p value <0.05). A majority of the patients demonstrated increased sleep latency, struggling to fall asleep swiftly. Conclusions: More than half of the patients had poor sleep, which has an adverse impact on the prognosis of the disease and quality of life of cancer patients. Therefore, this aspect of cancer management requires special consideration for better quality of life and appropriate end-of-life care. Competing Interests: The authors declares no conflicts of interest.Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. (Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.)
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