Caregiver and Staff Perceptions of Disruptions to Pediatric Inpatient Sleep.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

Sleep is critical to a child's health and well-being, but children are likely to sleep less and be awakened more often during the night in the hospital than at home. To date no studies have compared caregiver, nurse, and physician perspectives of nighttime sleep disruptions in the pediatric general medicine setting. Our aim was to assess caregiver, nurse, and physician perspectives on the most frequent in-hospital disruptors of sleep for pediatric patients. Additionally, we evaluated the degree of agreement of those opinions between the caregivers and medical team.

Methods

Caregivers, nurses, and physicians were surveyed using the Potential Hospital Sleep Disruption and Noises Questionnaire (PHSDNQ) regarding their opinions on factors that disrupt sleep. Car

SUBMITTER: Peirce LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6223548 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature