OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of sleep hygiene instructions for women with fibromyalgia. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Seventy women with fibromyalgia completed the study. The assessment comprised the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and a general questionnaire with personal data and lifestyle information. All patients received information about the disease and a sleep diary, but only the experimental group received the sleep hygiene instructions. Patients were asked to practice sleep hygiene, and, after three months, they were reevaluated by use of the same questionnaires. RESULTS: The mean age in the control group was 55.2 ±7.12 years, and, in the experimental group, 53.5 ±8.89 years (P = 0.392). The experimental group showed: a decrease in the pain Visual Analogue Scale values (P = 0.028), in fatigue (P = 0.021), and in the PSQI component 1 (P = 0.030); and a significant reduction in the difficulty falling asleep after waking up in the middle of the night (P = 0.031). The experimental group also showed an increase in the reporting percentage of "silent environment" (ranging from 42.9% to 68.6%), a decrease in the reporting percentage of "fairly quiet environment" (ranging from 40% to 22.9%), and a decrease in the reporting percentage of "noisy environment" (ranging from 17.1% to 8.6%). These changes facilitated falling asleep after waking up in the middle of the night. CONCLUSION: The sleep hygiene instructions allowed changing the patients' behavior, which resulted in pain and fatigue improvement, increased subjective quality of sleep, in addition to facilitating falling asleep after waking up in the middle of the night.
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of sleep hygiene instructions for women with fibromyalgia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Seventy women with fibromyalgia completed the study. The assessment comprised the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and a general questionnaire with personal data and lifestyle information. All patients received information about the disease and a sleep diary, but only the experimental group received the sleep hygiene instructions. Patients were asked to practice sleep hygiene, and, after three months, they were reevaluated by use of the same questionnaires. RESULTS: The mean age in the control group was 55.2 ±7.12 years, and, in the experimental group, 53.5 ±8.89 years (P = 0.392). The experimental group showed: a decrease in the pain Visual Analogue Scale values (P = 0.028), in fatigue (P = 0.021), and in the PSQI component 1 (P = 0.030); and a significant reduction in the difficulty falling asleep after waking up in the middle of the night (P = 0.031). The experimental group also showed an increase in the reporting percentage of "silent environment" (ranging from 42.9% to 68.6%), a decrease in the reporting percentage of "fairly quiet environment" (ranging from 40% to 22.9%), and a decrease in the reporting percentage of "noisy environment" (ranging from 17.1% to 8.6%). These changes facilitated falling asleep after waking up in the middle of the night. CONCLUSION: The sleep hygiene instructions allowed changing the patients' behavior, which resulted in pain and fatigue improvement, increased subjective quality of sleep, in addition to facilitating falling asleep after waking up in the middle of the night.
Authors: Mariana Moreira da Silva; Regiane Albertini; Paulo de Tarso Camillo de Carvalho; Ernesto Cesar Pinto Leal-Junior; Sandra Kalil Bussadori; Stella Sousa Vieira; Danilo Sales Bocalini; Luis Vicente Franco de Oliveira; Vanessa Grandinetti; José Antonio Silva; Andrey Jorge Serra Journal: Lasers Med Sci Date: 2017-11-23 Impact factor: 3.161
Authors: Fidel Hita-Contreras; Emilio Martínez-López; Pedro A Latorre-Román; Francisco Garrido; María A Santos; Antonio Martínez-Amat Journal: Rheumatol Int Date: 2014-02-08 Impact factor: 2.631
Authors: Mariana Moreira da Silva; Regiane Albertini; Ernesto Cesar Pinto Leal-Junior; Paulo de Tarso Camillo de Carvalho; José Antonio Silva; Sandra Kalil Bussadori; Luis Vicente Franco de Oliveira; Cezar Augusto Souza Casarin; Erinaldo Luiz Andrade; Danilo Sales Bocalini; Andrey Jorge Serra Journal: Trials Date: 2015-06-04 Impact factor: 2.279