Sleep quality of patients with heart failure and associated factors.

de Souza, Juliana Pessoa; Santos de Lima, Danielly Farias; Correia Paiva Leadebal, Oriana Deyze; Moreira Freire, Maria Eliane; dos Santos Oliveira, Simone Helena; Santos, Vinicius Batista; de Sousa, Mailson Marques

Objectives: to assess sleep quality of patients with heart failure and associated sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Methods: a cross-sectional study, developed with 88 patients. Sleep quality was assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: the mean sleep quality score was 8.59 ± 3.60 points. 83% of participants were classified as poor sleepers. The number of hours of sleep was 5.99 ± 1.48. Family income of up to one minimum wage and functional class were significantly associated with poor sleepers. There was a positive correlation between functional class and poor sleep quality. Conclusions: a high frequency of poor sleepers was identified. Worse scores were associated with family income and symptomatic functional class. Health interventions are necessary to control sleep quality, especially in relation to health functionality.

BRAZIL; HEART failure treatment; PSYCHOLOGY of cardiac patients; CROSS-sectional method; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); SLEEP latency; ACADEMIC medical centers; T-test (Statistics); DATA analysis; INCOME; HEART failure; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ECONOMIC status; SLEEP duration; SLEEP; INFERENTIAL statistics; STATISTICS; SLEEP quality; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; DATA analysis software; SOCIAL classes; SYMPTOMS

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2024, Vol 77, Issue 6, p1

0034-7167

Academic Journal

10.1590/0034-7167-2024-0244