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| Nighttime urinary incontinence and sleep disruption among nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Joseph G Ouslander, William G Buxton, Nahla R Al-Samarrai |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 46, no 4, April 1998 |
| Pages | pp 463-466 |
| Keywords | Incontinence ; Nightly ; Sleep disorders ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In this US study of 73 incontinent residents of three nursing homes, data was recorded over 403 nights, during which 1715 awakenings from 10 consecutive minutes of sleep were detected as were 1168 incontinent episodes. Only 4% of awakenings were associated with incontinence; and only 23% of incontinence episodes occurred during periods of at least 10 consecutive minutes of sleep. Of the latter, only 12% appeared to awaken the resident. The data obtained raise questions about the relevance of incontinence episodes to sleep disruption in chronically incontinent nursing home residents. The authors' findings must be interpreted with caution, because of limitations in the technologies and definitions used to identify sleep, awakenings and incontinence episodes. Although logistically and technically difficult to perform, studies using polysomnographic recordings of sleep are needed to further examine these important associations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980527004 A |
| Classmark | CTM: 4RD: CTS: KX: LHB: 49: 7T |
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