Non-pharmacologic interventions to improve the sleep of hospitalized patients: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Despite the known adverse effects of sleep deprivation on recovery from illness, studies have shown that sleep deprivation remains an incompletely addressed problem among acutely ill inpatients. Behavioral interventions are recommended as first-line therapy prior to using pharmacologic therapy due to the side effects of sedative hypnotics. The objective of this systematic review was to identify non-pharmacologic interventions that have been used to improve sleep quality and quantity of non-intensive care unit (ICU) inpatients.

Data sources

PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library through January 2013; manual searches of reference lists.

Study eligibility criteria, participants, interventions

Any study in which a non-pharmacologic interve

SUBMITTER: Tamrat R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4000341 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature