ArticleRheumatology international2013
Sleep quality in patients with systemic sclerosis: relationship between the clinical variables, depressive symptoms, functional status, and the quality of life.
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- Negative affect in systemic sclerosis.Rheumatology international · 2014Pooled it
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- Kinesiophobia in Systemic Sclerosis: Relationship With Functional Status, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Depression, and Other Clinical Parameters.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2025Article
- Inadequate sleep hygiene as a key factor in poor sleep quality in systemic sclerosis: an observational, cross-sectional study.Rheumatology international · 2025Observational
- Prevalence and Outcomes of Gastrointestinal Manifestations in an Australian Scleroderma Cohort.Arthritis care & research · 2024Article
- Emotional intelligence: a novel predictor of quality of life in patients with systemic sclerosis.Rheumatology international · 2024Article
- Sleep disorders and other medical and socio-demographic factors in systemic scleroderma.European journal of translational myology · 2024Article
- Quality of sleep in individuals with systemic sclerosis and its correlation with functional disability and quality of life: a cross-sectional study.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2024Article
- Patterns of patient-reported symptoms and association with sociodemographic and systemic sclerosis disease characteristics: a scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) Cohort cross-sectional study.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- Perceived Cognitive Function in People With Systemic Sclerosis: Associations With Symptoms and Daily Life Functioning.Arthritis care & research · 2023Article
- Sleep quality and clinical association with sleep disturbance in systemic sclerosis.BMC rheumatology · 2023Article
- Differences in symptom experience among patients with systemic sclerosis: a cluster analytic approach to identifying subgroups.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- State of the art and future directions in assessing the quality of life in rare and complex connective tissue and musculoskeletal diseases.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- Polysomnography findings and risk factors for sleep-disordered breathing in patients with systemic sclerosis.Archives of rheumatology · 2021Article
- A comprehensive framework for navigating patient care in systemic sclerosis: A global response to the need for improving the practice of diagnostic and preventive strategies in SSc.Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology · 2021Review
- Measures of Sleep in Rheumatologic Diseases: Sleep Quality Patient-Reported Outcomes in Rheumatologic Diseases.Arthritis care & research · 2020Review
- Comorbidity burden in systemic sclerosis: beyond disease-specific complications.Rheumatology international · 2019Review
- High Frequency of Fibromyalgia in Patients With Acne Vulgaris.Archives of rheumatology · 2016Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between the sleep quality and the disease-related variables, functional status, quality of life, and depressive symptoms in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Forty-eight patients diagnosed with SSc and 42 healthy control subjects were enrolled in the study. The demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients such as the Raynaud's phenomenon, SSc subtype, digital ulcers, gastrointestinal and lung involvement, and disease activity were recorded. All patients were assessed using the short form 36 (SF-36) quality of life scale, the health assessment questionnaire and the beck depression inventory. Generalized pain and fatigue were assessed with the Visual Analoge Scale. For the evaluation of the sleep disturbance, the SSc and control groups were assessed with the help of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The patients with SSc had significantly higher scores in the subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbance, daytime dysfunction domains, and in terms of the total PSQI score compared to the healthy control group (p < 0.05). According to the results of spearman's analysis, there was a significantly higher correlation between the generalised pain, fatigue, depressive symptoms, functional status, and physical score of the SF-36 and the sleep disturbance (p < 0.01). There was also a significantly lower correlation between the menopause status, dyspnoea, gastroesophageal reflux, dysphagia, the mental score of the SF-36, and the sleep disturbance (p < 0.05). The sleep quality is disturbed in patients with SSc. The lower quality of sleep is especially associated with the pain, fatigue, depressive symptoms, and functional status.
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