Sleep Quality & Spinal Cord Injury

Since survival increases in patients with spinal cord injury, sleep disturbances, which are more frequently observed than the general population and have significant impacts on mortality, impair long-term quality of life.The aim of the study was to evaluate sleep quality in patients with spinal cord injury; to investigate the relationship between sleep and spinal cord level, ambulation status, spasticity, quality of life, daily living activities, depressive status, neuropathic pain Eighty patients with inpatient rehabilitation of spinal cord injury were included in the study. Demographic characteristics, duration of spinal cord injury, spinal cord injury level, etiology, number of intermittent bladder catheterization (IC), number of night time IC, what time they slept, whether they woke up at night, classification of spinal cord injury were recorded. Ambulation level with Functional Ambulation Classification (FAC), spasticity with Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), depressive symptoms with Beck Depression Index (BDI), quality of life with short-form health survey (SF-36), sleep quality The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), daytime sleepiness Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS), activity of daily living with Barthel Index (BI), neuropathic pain were evaluated with the Douleur Neuropathique 4 questionnaire (DN4) scale.