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- Title
Evaluation of the Relationship Between the Stage of Dementia and Quality of Sleep in Patients.
- Authors
AKAR, Beril; ERDAL, Yüksel; BİRTEK, Merve
- Abstract
Introduction: Dementia is a group of diseases that affect memory, thinking, and social skills. Chronic sleep disorders are important risk factors that lead to a decline in cognitive function. Dementia and sleep disorders are two risky conditions that can be either the cause or the result of each other. During our research, we aimed to categorize dementia patients according to their dementia stages and compare them with their Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scores (PSQI). We would like to demonstrate with this study that low or high sleep quality affects the dementia stage of patients. If meaningful results are obtained, a risk factor that affects the progression of dementia can be better controlled by providing better and more comprehensive information to patients on this subject. Method: The PSQI was applied to patients with dementia. The patients' dementia stages, age, gender, and PSQI scores were evaluated. P<0.05 is considered statistically significant. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to evaluate the results. Results: Of the 74 patients evaluated, 30.4% were male, 26.2% were diagnosed with advanced dementia, and only 27.9% of them did not have bad sleep quality (PSQI score <5). The results were evaluated with oneway ANOVA (Kruskal-Wallis), which did not yield a statistically significant result because it is used as a nonparametric test to assess the relationship between the dementia stage as an independent variable and PSQI as a dependent variable (p=0.827). The same test was used for age and dementia stage, which was statistically significant (p=0.028). Conclusion: We observed that the dementia stage did not affect the sleep quality of the patients. The study did not reach a meaningful result.
- Subjects
SLEEP quality; DEMENTIA patients; DEMENTIA; SLEEP disorders; ONE-way analysis of variance; SLEEP
- Publication
Bezmialem Science, 2024, Vol 13, pS37
- ISSN
2148-2373
- Publication type
Abstract