Sleep Composition of Patients With Colorectal Cancer and Their Sleep-Partner Caregivers: Physical Health Correlates of Sleep Diary and Actigraphy Measurements.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disturbed sleep is frequently identified in adult patients with cancer and their caregivers, with detrimental impact on physical health. Less known is the extent to which self-reported and actigraph-measured sleep patterns are similar between patients and their sleep-partner caregivers, and how these different modes of sleep measurements are related to physical health.

Methods

Patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer and their sleep-partner caregivers (81 dyads) completed a questionnaire for physical functioning and collected saliva samples for seven consecutive days, from which cortisol slope was quantified. Additionally, participants completed a daily sleep diary and wore actigraph for 14 consecutive days, from which sleep duration, sleep onset latency (SOL), a

SUBMITTER: Ting A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11328964 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature