Center on Aging and Health, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 1466Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
J Appl Gerontol. 2022 Jun;41(6):1568-1575. doi: 10.1177/07334648221079110. Epub 2022 Mar 26.
The stress of family caregiving may affect many health-related variables, including sleep. We evaluated differences in self-reported sleep quality between incident caregivers and matched non-caregiving controls from a national population-based study. Caregivers and controls were identified in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study and matched on seven different demographic and health history factors. Caregivers reported significantly longer sleep onset latency than controls, before and after adjusting for covariates (ps < .05). No differences were found on measures of total sleep time or sleep efficiency. Among caregivers only, employed persons reported less total sleep time and number of care hours was significant predictor of total sleep time. Dementia caregivers did not differ from other caregivers. This is one of the few population-based studies of sleep quality in family caregivers. Additional research is needed to examine whether sleep disturbance contributes to greater health problems among caregivers.
家庭护理的压力可能会影响许多与健康相关的变量，包括睡眠。我们评估了来自全国基于人群的研究中，新发生的护理者和匹配的非护理对照者之间自我报告的睡眠质量差异。在 Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) 研究中识别出护理者和对照者，并根据七个不同的人口统计学和健康史因素进行匹配。在调整了协变量后，护理者的入睡潜伏期显著长于对照者（p <.05）。在总睡眠时间或睡眠效率方面没有差异。仅在护理者中，就业人员报告的总睡眠时间较短，而护理小时数是总睡眠时间的显著预测指标。痴呆症护理者与其他护理者没有差异。这是为数不多的关于家庭护理者睡眠质量的基于人群的研究之一。需要进一步研究以检查睡眠障碍是否会导致护理者出现更多健康问题。
