The Association Between Lifestyle Factors and Sleep Quality in Haemodialysis Patients.
Lu Zhang, Sumei Zhang, Xuanbing Tang
PMID 42625548WHAT IT FOUND
In patients receiving maintenance haemodialysis, 73.4% had poor sleep.
Depression and lower self-management were linked to worse sleep even after accounting for age, dialysis duration, nutrition, exercise, smoking, and drinking.
Key findings
01Of 286 maintenance haemodialysis patients, 210 (73.4%) had poor sleep quality.
02After adjustment, higher depression score and lower self-management score were independently associated with poor sleep quality.
03Nutritional status, exercise, smoking, drinking, education, and primary renal diagnosis were not independently associated with sleep quality.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for RNs
Read the rest of this summary
You get three full summaries a month, free, and we do not ask for a card. Search, the TL;DRs and your library stay unlimited either way.
What it does not show
The study measured associations at one time point, so it cannot show that depression or poor self-management caused poor sleep. People with dementia, psychosis, or acute illness requiring admission were excluded, so the results do not apply to them. Much of the information was self-reported, so memory bias may affect the results. Smoking, drinking, and exercise were recorded only as yes or no, not amount or duration.
Declared interests
The work was funded by the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province. The authors declared no conflicts of interest. AI was used for language editing only.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that treating depression or improving self-management will improve sleep. This was a cross-sectional association, so it cannot show cause or effect.