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.
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.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
328
Ask patients about sleep quality and identify reasons of troubled sleeping patterns in the units.
Presence of a sleeping disorder partially or totally related, according to patient's opinion, to night nursing activity
Time frame: At the end of participation of patient- maximum at day 15 after inclusion
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
Time frame: 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
Time frame: 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
Time frame: 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
Time frame: Every day during 15 days
Sleep quality measured by Spiegel score
Score from 0 to 30
Time frame: Every day during 15 days
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