Sleep quality of women with gynecological and breast cancer

Abstract

Subjective sleep quality has been recognized as a valuable indicator of health and quality of life. This exploratory and descriptive study aimed at describing habitual sleep quality of women suffering from gynecological and breast cancer and comparing habitual versus sleep quality during hospitalization. Twenty-five women admitted in hospital for clinical treatment of cancer completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) within 72 hours after admission and again just before discharge. Fifty-two percent of subjects reported habitual bad sleep quality, and this proportion increased to 80% of subjects during hospital stay. Subjects indicated the following most frequent causes of night sleep disturbance: need to go to the toilet, waking up early and receiving nursing care during the night. Results point to the importance of including careful assessment of sleep quality and environment in nursing care planning for oncology patients, mainly during hospitalization.

Quality of sleep in postoperative surgical oncologic patients

“…A study (8) The site of cancer was also a statistically significant variable (p=0.023). It is known that the site and stage of the disease determine the kind of treatment chosen and also affect the recovery and quality of life of those who survive it (14) .…”

“…Cancer patients who were submitted to specific treatments in the last six months were more subject to problems of excessive somnolence (8) .…”

“…Another study that focused on the poor sleep quality of cancer patients (8) highlighted the following problems: early waking (92%) and the need to go to the bathroom (92%), followed by episodes of pain (69.3%) and sensation of heat during the night (46.2%). These findings are similar to those of this study in which 27 (58.7%) patients reported poor or very poor sleep patterns.…”

“…The authors of this study became concerned with the theme after analyzing the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) (5) (6) , women undergoing elective gynecological surgeries (7) , and women with gynecological and breast cancers (8) .…”

Sonolência diurna excessiva nos pacientes com infarto agudo do miocárdio

“…It was used a methodology proposed for calculating the sample size for an unpaired t-test, considering a study in which the group of subjects with clinical improvement had an average of 7.2 points and a standard deviation of 4.4 points in the score of the instrument that assesses the sleep quality, and those with clinical worsening obtained an average of 10.3 and a standard deviation of 3.8 points in the ratio of 15% of subjects with clinical worsening; (15) significance level of 5%; power of 80%. The calculated sample size was of 121 subjects, among which 18 should present clinical worsening.…”