Clinical sleep patterns in human immune virus infection

✍ Scribed by David Wheatley; Kitty Smith

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 500 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6222
• DOI: 10.1002/hup.470090204

✦ Synopsis

Clinical sleep patterns were recorded in 45 HIV+ve patients, using a 5-item questionnaire concerned with: sleep onset, nocturnal wakings, early morning awakening, duration of sleep and well-being on final waking. These were quantified to give a totd 'insomnia score' and compared to matched normal controls. Sleep was significantly worse in the HIV patients in relation to: delayed onset and early morning awakening (p < 03), nocturnal wakings and wellbeing on waking (p < O.OOOl), although not significant for duration of sleep. The mean total score for the HIV patients was 3.8 and for the controls 2.1 (p < 04001). There was an almost significant correlation between insomnia score and duration HIV+ve (p = 0055). AIDS status did not affect the results but the insomnia score was greater in the absence of anti-viral chemotherapy (p = 0-052). In the controls insomnia severity almost correlated to stress (p = 0.052). The results showed that the HIV patients had significantly more sleep disturbance than the matched controh, with resultant implications for improving quality of life in this respect.