PURPOSE To determine the influence of sleep deprivation on the occurrence of errors by registered nurses working in night shift in intensive care departments. METHODS The study utilized a multi-part questionnaire which included items about demographic characteristics, reported medical errors, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) 300 questionnaires were distributed to registered nurses wo...

BACKGROUND Glycaemic control is fundamental to the management of and risk reduction in microvascular complications of diabetes. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the association of sleep quality with glycaemic control and its impact on type 2 diabetic patients in an Asian population. METHODS A total of 46 subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus were enrolled. HbA1C was meas...

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbances are common in patients with movement disorders. Evaluating quality of sleep is of primary importance because of the effect that nocturnal and daytime sleep abnormalities exert on general health status. However, quality of sleep has never been addressed in detail in patients with dystonia. The aim of this case-control study was to analyse quality of sleep in patient...

OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to determine the frequency of sleep disturbances in women prior to adjuvant therapy for breast cancer (BCa), and whether greater sleep dysfunction uniquely predicts poorer functional outcomes. METHOD We assessed subjective sleep reports and associated them with multiple indicators of psychosocial adaptation in 240 women with Stage I-III BCa before they had be...

introduction: inadequate sleep hygiene may result in difficulties in daily functioning; therefore, reliable scales are important to measure sleep hygiene. the purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the persian version of sleep hygiene index (shi) in the male population. methods: in this study, 787 men, who were selected by cluster random sampling, filled out the shi,...

BACKGROUND Sleep is an essential part of life. Lack of sleep has been linked with increased morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to determine the sleep quality of older adults residing in a private elderly care institution in Malaysia. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross sectional study was conducted among consenting residents of a 200-bed non-governmental charity old folks h...

Because poor sleep quality can reduce quality of life and increase prevalence of illness in workers, interventions are becoming increasingly important for businesses. To evaluate how sleep quality is affected by one-on-one behavioral modification when combined with group education, we conducted a randomized, controlled trial among day-shift white-collar employees working for an information-tech...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We examined the characteristics of sleep disturbances and sleep patterns in the caregivers of patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and dementia. METHODS We prospectively studied 132 patients (60 with aMCI and 72 with dementia) and their caregivers, and 52 noncaregiver controls. All caregivers and controls completed several sleep questionnaires, includ...