Sleep Quality in Advanced Cancer Patients

Overview

Journal J Psychosom Res

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2007 May 1

PMID 17467407

Citations 31

Authors

Kyriaki Mystakidou

Efi Parpa

Eleni Tsilika

Maria Pathiaki

Elisabeth Patiraki

Antonis Galanos

Lambros Vlahos

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Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the sleep quality of advanced cancer patients and its relationship with pain, depression, and hopelessness.

Methods: The participants were 102 advanced cancer patients who were on palliative treatment. Patients completed a sleep quality instrument, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); a pain assessment tool, the Greek Brief Pain Inventory; a self-report measure of depression, the Beck Depression Inventory; and, finally, the Beck Hopelessness Scale.

Results: Multiple regression analyses (forward method) have shown that hopelessness (P=.003), "interference of pain with mood" (P<.0005), and strong opioids (P=.010) seemed to influence patients' sleep quality (PSOI). In an additional regression analysis (enter method), the PSQI is significantly related to opioids (P=.013), hopelessness (P=.035), and "interference of pain with mood" (P=.004).

Conclusion: Hopelessness, pain treatment, and "interference of pain with mood" may influence the quality of sleep in advanced stages of cancer.

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