Sleep disorders in advanced cancer patients: prevalence and factors associated
โ Scribed by Sebastiano Mercadante; Davide Girelli; Alessandra Casuccio
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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## Abstract ## Background. Fatigue, sleep disturbances, and cognitive impairment are prevalent and clinically important problems among head and neck cancer patients. Our study aim was to determine the most important correlates of these problems among patients with head and neck cancer. ## Methods
We studied the mental health of 1,278 patients with cancer and 645 family members of patients with cancer to delineate clinical and demographic characteristics associated with poor psychological status. For both patients and their matched relatives, there was a direct relationship between poorer men