Sleep quality and daytime sleepiness amongst family caregivers of children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy

BULUT N., Aydın Yağcıoğlu G., Uğur F., YAYICI KÖKEN Ö., GÜRBÜZ İ., YILMAZ Ö., ...Daha Fazla

Research in Developmental Disabilities, cilt.152, 2024 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 152
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.ridd.2024.104811
  • Dergi Adı: Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, ASSIA, PASCAL, BIOSIS, CINAHL, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MEDLINE, Psycinfo
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Caregivers, Daytime sleepiness, Family, Sleep quality, Spinal muscular atrophy
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Background: While there are limited studies focusing on sleep quality of family caregivers of children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), there are no studies on daytime sleepiness in SMA. Aims: This study aimed a) to compare the sleep quality and daytime sleepiness between caregivers of children with SMA and those of healthy peers and b) to investigate the sleep quality and daytime sleepiness of family caregivers of children with different types of SMA. Methods and procedures: This study included 30 family caregivers of children with SMA (SMA Type 1:12, SMA Type 2:10, and SMA Type 3:8) and 31 family caregivers of healthy peers. Sleep quality and daytime sleepiness of family caregivers were evaluated using the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (EPS), consecutively. Outcomes and results: Demographic characteristics of children with SMA and healthy peers were similar (p > 0.05). The mean ages of family caregivers of children with SMA and healthy peers were 36.07 ± 5.84 and 35.26 ± 5.02 years, respectively (p = 0.6). The PSQI scores of family caregivers of children with SMA (7.50 ± 3.90 points) were lower than those of healthy peers (4.09 ± 1.97 points) (p < 0.001). There was no difference in PSQI scores between SMA types (p = 0.8). Also, no difference was found between SMA types and between SMA and healthy peers in terms of EPS (p > 0.05). Conclusions and implications: Family caregivers of children with SMA had poor sleep quality but similar daytime sleepiness compared with those of healthy peers. Among SMA types, family caregivers had similar sleep quality and daytime sleepiness. It was demonstrated that the sleep quality of family caregivers should be taken into consideration in the disease management of SMA.