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Is noise the most disruptive factor to sleep for intensive care unit (ICU) patients?
First, is noise the most disruptive factor to sleep for ICU patients, or is noise only responsible for a small percentage of the sleep disruption?
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Therefore, we conducted this large-scale cross-sectional study in China to estimate the prevalence of sleep disturbance and depressive symptoms; to comprehensively examine the potentially contributing factors to sleep disturbance and depressive symptoms among demographics, school, family and psychosocial health; and to discuss the link between sleep disturbance and depressive symptoms.
However, we cannot rule out that other unmeasured factors related to sleep disturbance may influence the association with chronic headache.
Rationale: Poor sleep is common in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and environmental factors contribute to sleep deprivation and alterations of sleep architecture.
We focused our analysis on factors contributing to sleep fragility during non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep (stages N2 and N3, accounting for the majority of sleep [7]), as several difficulties arise when considering alpha activity during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep (see Discussion).
The second aim was to investigate psychological and biological factors related to sleep difficulty.
Each of the risk factors related to sleep were evaluated separately.
It is also impossible to rule out residual confounding in reported RRs, and in particular we were unable to investigate potential confounding factors related to sleep or napping behaviours, such as chronotype and employment in shift work.
The PSQI is a self-rated questionnaire consisting of 19 items, assessing a wide variety of factors related to sleep quality over a 1 month period, including estimates of sleep duration and latency, and of the frequency and severity of specific sleep-related problems.
There exists a multitude of factors that contribute to sleep disturbance that highlights the complexities faced when attempting to manage sleep disturbance and consequences of sleep deprivation on patient recovery.
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