Sleep Disturbance and Quality of Life in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Prospective mHealth Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sleep disturbances and poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are common in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Sleep disturbances, such as less total sleep time, more waking periods after sleep onset, and higher levels of nonrestorative sleep, may be a driver of HRQoL. However, understanding whether these sleep disturbances reduce HRQoL has, to date, been challenging because of the need to collect complex time-varying data at high resolution. Such data collection is now made possible by the widespread availability and use of mobile health (mHealth) technologies.

Objective

This mHealth study aimed to test whether sleep disturbance (both absolute values and variability) causes poor HRQoL.

Methods

The quality of life, sleep, and RA study was a prospec

SUBMITTER: McBeth J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9077504 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature