Clinically significant discrepancies between sleep problems assessed by standard clinical tools and actigraphy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sleep disturbances are widespread among nursing home (NH) patients and associated with numerous negative consequences. Identifying and treating them should therefore be of high clinical priority. No prior studies have investigated the degree to which sleep disturbances as detected by actigraphy and by the sleep-related items in the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD) and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory - Nursing Home version (NPI-NH) provide comparable results. Such knowledge is highly needed, since both questionnaires are used in clinical settings and studies use the NPI-NH sleep item to measure sleep disturbances. For this reason, insight into their relative (dis)advantages is valuable.

Method

Cross-sectional study of 83 NH patients. Sleep was objecti

SUBMITTER: Blytt KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5659001 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature