Objectives: to analyze the factors associated with poor sleep quality, its characteristics and components in women with breast cancer prior to surgery for removing the tumor and throughout the follow-up. Method: longitudinal study in a teaching hospital, with a sample of 102 women. The following were used: a questionnaire for sociodemographic and clinical characterization, the Pittsburgh Slee...

abstract background: about 79% of pregnant women in the world suffer from sleep disorders. these disorders result from physiological changes during pregnancy, originate from different factors, and can affect pregnant women’s quality of life before, during, and after delivery. this study aimed to investigate the effect of sleep healthy behavior education on the quality of life among pregnant wom...

Several studies have reported that short sleep duration is a risk factor for obesity and metabolic disease. Moreover, both sleep duration and sleep timing might independently be associated with dietary nutrient intake. In this study, we investigated the associations between self-reported sleep duration and dietary nutrient intake, with and without adjustments for variations in sleep timing (i.e...

Introduction: Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a neurological sensory-motor disorder that is observed as an unpleasant sensation in the legs, especially when sitting or lying down and at rest. This study aimed to determine the prevalence RLS and its related factors among older adults in Eslamabad-e-Gharb, Kermanshah province, Iran in 2021. Methods: Totally, 240 elderlies entered the study using...

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...

Sleep of an organism is a state that has yet to be fully described. It is true though that somatic manifestations of sleep may refl ect the degree of psychological well-being and, conversely, the quality of sleep greatly infl uences the perceived quality of life. The supportive data was collected using a questionnaire for Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The surveyed group consisted of 10...

background: poor sleep quality is closely associated with lifestyle habits including use of mobile cell-phones.this study aimed to identify the relationship between sleep quality due to abuse in mobile cell-phones and engagement in social networks. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted on 380 undergraduate students selected by proportional stratified sampling in qom, iran in 2015. ...