Dementia behavioural and psychiatric symptoms: effect on caregiver's sleep.
Dementia behavioural and psychiatric symptoms: effect on caregiver's sleep.
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DOI:
10.1111/jocn.12127
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发表时间:
2013-11
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Carter P
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文献类型:
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作者:
Simpson C;Carter P
To examine caregiver sleep quality, especially in relation to the daytime and nighttime behaviors and psychological symptoms exhibited by persons with dementia (PWDs). Caregivers of PWDs experience poorer sleep in comparison with noncaregivers, and poor sleep is related to negative health outcomes. The reasons for caregivers’ poor sleep are complex, and it is known that the nighttime behaviors of the PWD contribute to caregiver sleep disruption. However, the frequency of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia has hitherto not been sufficiently explored as a contributing factor to poor caregiver sleep. A nonexperimental cross-sectional design. Eighty caregivers completed questionnaires on the frequency of behavioral and psychological symptoms of the PWD, the Dementia Severity Rating Scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression Scale. Poor sleep was reported with awakenings by the PWD occurring for more than half of the caregivers. The frequency of behaviors and symptoms did not make a unique contribution to the variance of caregivers’ global sleep. The frequency of behaviors, and specifically of agitation and apathy, contributed to the variance in subjective sleep quality, as defined by the caregivers’ appraisal of their sleep. The findings demonstrate the relationship between (a) daytime and nighttime behaviors of PWDs and (b) their caregivers’ sleep quality, and emphasize the complexity of the factors that contribute to caregiver sleep quality. These findings suggest that nurses should be cognizant of the relationship between daytime behaviors of the PWD and the caregivers’ appraisal of their sleep, realizing that appraising one’s sleep as poor can be a contributing factor to perpetuating sleep problems. Interventions aimed at helping the caregiver manage the PWD’s agitation or the caregiver’s emotional response to PWD apathy may improve caregivers’ perception of their sleep.
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