Caregiver Sleep and Patient Neutrophil Engraftment in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant: A Secondary Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Caregiving for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (Allo-HSCT) patients can be significantly burdensome. Caregiver well-being often mirrors patients' suffering. However, to our knowledge, this dyadic relationship has not been linked to patient outcome.

Objective

Caregiver's objective and subjective sleep and overall distress before transplantation were hypothesized to be related to patient's time to engraftment in secondary analyses.

Methods

Dyads (N = 124) were Allo-HSCT patients (mean [SD] age, 49.2 [12.7] years) and their caregivers (mean [SD] age, 52.7 [12.3] years). Caregiver's subjective sleep quality was measured via the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, objective sleep was measured by actigraphy, and distress was measured by combining valida

SUBMITTER: Sannes TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5459682 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan/Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature