TY  - JOUR
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10050832
TI  - Evaluating Patterns and Factors Related to Sleep Disturbances in Prostate Cancer Patients
KW  - sleep; insomnia; prostate cancer; actigraphy; sleep fragmentation
ID  - discovery10148629
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
JF  - Healthcare
AV  - public
IS  - 5
N2  - Prostate cancer patients may experience disturbed sleep as a result of their diagnosis or treatment. This study sought to evaluate disturbed sleep and excessive daytime sleepiness in newly diagnosed patients and those receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). This study was conducted with 74 patients. Subjective data using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and actigraphy data on ADT/ADT-naïve patients were collected. The prevalence of poor sleep quality, determined from PSQI and ESS scores, was 50% and 16.7% respectively. Those on ADT (n = 20) had poorer sleep quality as determined by significantly higher PSQI scores (70 vs. 40% scoring > 5) and were more likely to have poor sleep quality, sleep latency, and sleep efficiency than ADT-naïve patients (n = 40). Actigraphy data showed that ADT patients slept significantly longer (7.7 vs. 6.8 h), experienced a higher Fragmentation Index (48.3 vs. 37.4%), and had longer daytime nap duration (64.1 vs. 45.2 min) than ADT-naïve patients. The use of objective measures such as actigraphy in the clinical arena is recommended and may be used as a valuable tool for research into sleep assessment in prostate cancer patients.
PB  - MDPI AG
VL  - 10
Y1  - 2022/05//
A1  - Mondal, Shalini
A1  - Edwards, Steve
A1  - Wibowo, Erik
A1  - Ahmed, Hashim
A1  - Wassersug, Richard J
A1  - Ellis, Jason
A1  - Isaac, Maximus
A1  - Dimitriou, Dagmara
A1  - Mangar, Stephen
ER  -