Salomé Geraldo Magela, de Souza Pellegrino Donata Maria, Blanes Leila, Ferreira Lydia Masako
Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil; email:
Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.
Wounds. 2013 Jan;25(1):20-7.
Objective. To assess sleep quality in a population of patients with diabetic foot ulcers.
This was an exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional study. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to assess sleep quality in 60 patients with diabetes mellitus and foot ulcers.
Seventeen (28.3%) patients had a global PSQI score less than 5, indicating that they were good sleepers, while 43 (71.7%) patients were considered poor sleepers. The patients reported going to bed between 9:00 pm and 11:00 pm (n = 40, 66.70%), taking from 16 minutes to 30 minutes to fall asleep (n = 25, 41.70%), and waking up after 4 hours to 5 hours of sleep (n = 40, 66.70%).
Patients with diabetic foot ulcers have poor sleep quality. .
