[Sleep and psychological disorders in intensive care units].

The evaluation of sleeping and psychical disorders for 24 patients hospitalized during at least 5 days in an intensive care unit was realized through a semi-guiding talk with a psychiatrist. All patients were faced to a very disordered sleep and a high number of psychopathological phenomenons: amnesia, disorientation, hallucinations, anxiety, depression. Different factors are concerned in the genesis of those troubles. Some means could prevent it.