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Nursing Activity and Quality of Hospitalized Patients' Sleep

Conditions
Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm
Interventions
Behavioral: Observational
Registration Number
NCT03370354
Lead Sponsor
Central Hospital, Nancy, France
Brief Summary

This study is to determine the impact of night shift nurse's activity on patients' sleeping patterns in medical services including individual, clinical and environmental factors. The patients will be questioned in order to create both a control group and a group with troubled sleeping patterns.

Detailed Description

There are 5 speciality medical units involved. Patients must respond to the define inclusion criteria. Each patient will be asked if they agree to participate and if so will be asked to consent to participate.

Every day, nurses will give a questionnaire which will be completed by the patient to know if there were troubles sleeping patterns. If so, a second questionnaire will be completed by the patient.

Other data will be recorded such as personal informations, diagnostic, medical history, consumption habits and treatments.

The inclusion phase lasts 15 days maximum.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
328
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patient hospitalize in medical units
  • In the unit since one night
  • Patient over 18 years old
  • Patient agree to participate
Exclusion Criteria
  • Patient who can't answer to the questionnaire for health reasons
  • Patient who need a specific surveillance
  • Patient recently operated

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
troubled sleeping patterns groupObservationalFirst questionnaire (spiegel questionnaire) will allow a score on 30. If the score is \< 18, the patient will be in the troubled patterns group.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Presence of a sleeping disorder partially or totally related, according to patient's opinion, to night nursing activityAt the end of participation of patient- maximum at day 15 after inclusion
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Part of patients declaring disturbing elements related to night nursing activityAt day 15 after inclusion

A follow up sheet is completed every day by a study nurse who asks to patient if the patient sleeps well during the previous night

Disturbing elements related to night nursing activityEvery day during 15 days

A follow up sheet is completed every day by a study nurse who asks to patient what was the disturbing elements according to him

Individual and clinical disturbing elementsEvery day during 15 days

A follow up sheet is completed every day by a study nurse who asks to patient what was the disturbing elements according to him

Average length of patients' sleep in patients with troubled sleeping during hospitalizationEvery day during 15 days

Estimated with the Vis Morgen self administered questionnaire

Sleep quality measured by Spiegel scoreEvery day during 15 days

Score from 0 to 30

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