Nursing Activity and Quality of Hospitalized Patients' Sleep

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This study is to determine the impact of night shift nurse's activity on patients' sleeping patterns in medical services including individual, clinical and environmental factors. The patients will be questioned in order to create both a control group and a group with troubled sleeping patterns.

Detailed Description
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There are 5 speciality medical units involved. Patients must respond to the define inclusion criteria. Each patient will be asked if they agree to participate and if so will be asked to consent to participate. Every day, nurses will give a questionnaire which will be completed by the patient to know if there were troubles sleeping patterns. If so, a second questionnaire will be completed by the patient. Other data will be recorded such as personal informations, diagnostic, medical history, consumption habits and treatments. The inclusion phase lasts 15 days maximum.

Official Title
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The Impact of Night Nursing Activity on the Quality of Hospitalized Patients' Sleep

Conditions
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Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Observational


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Patient hospitalize in medical units In the unit since one night Patient over 18 years old Patient agree to participate Exclusion Criteria: Patient who can't answer to the questionnaire for health reasons Patient who need a specific surveillance Patient recently operated

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 99 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Control group<br>First questionnaire (spiegel questionnaire) will allow a score on 30. If the score is > 18, the patient will be in the control group. | |
| troubled sleeping patterns group<br>First questionnaire (spiegel questionnaire) will allow a score on 30. If the score is < 18, the patient will be in the troubled patterns group. | Behavioral: Observational<br>* Ask patients about sleep quality and identify reasons of troubled sleeping patterns in the units.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Presence of a sleeping disorder partially or totally related, according to patient's opinion, to night nursing activity |  | At the end of participation of patient- maximum at day 15 after inclusion | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Part of patients declaring disturbing elements related to night nursing activity | A follow up sheet is completed every day by a study nurse who asks to patient if the patient sleeps well during the previous night | At day 15 after inclusion | 
| Disturbing elements related to night nursing activity | A follow up sheet is completed every day by a study nurse who asks to patient what was the disturbing elements according to him | Every day during 15 days | 
| Individual and clinical disturbing elements | A follow up sheet is completed every day by a study nurse who asks to patient what was the disturbing elements according to him | Every day during 15 days | 
| Average length of patients' sleep in patients with troubled sleeping during hospitalization | Estimated with the Vis Morgen self administered questionnaire | Every day during 15 days | 
| Sleep quality measured by Spiegel score | Score from 0 to 30 | Every day during 15 days |