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Background:This study was conducted to determine the association between the subjective quality of sleepand cognitive decline among the patients of chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoinghaemodialysis.Methods: In this cross-sectional study 106patients of chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing haemodialysisat a tertiary care hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan were included in the final analysis. Cognitive decline was measured by British Columbia Cognitive Complaints Inventory (BC-CCI).Sleep quality was measured by using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Relationship of age, gender, marital status,education,occupation, BMI,duration of dialysis, dialysis count per week, family income, tobacco smoking and use of naswarwas assessed with the cognitive decline. Results: Out of 106 patientsscreened through BC-CCIand PSQI, 13.1% had no cognitive decline while 86.9% had significant cognitive decline.Relationship between quality of sleep and cognitive decline was significant on binary logistic regression.Conclusion: This study showed significant relationship between the sleep quality and cognitive decline among the patients of CKD undergoing haemodialysis. The findings of our study also call for a greater degree of understanding of the physical and psychological state of patients of CKD undergoing haemodialysi
Usama Bin Zubair,, Batool Butt. (2017) ASSOCIATION OF QUALITY OF SLEEP WITH COGNITIVE DECLINEAMONG THEPATIENTS OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE UNDERGOING HAEMODIALYSI, JOURNAL OF AYUB MEDICAL COLLEGE ABBOTTABAD, Volume 29, Issue 4.
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