Investigate the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Some Blood Parameters in Thalassemia Major Patients Referred to Cooley's Ward at Motahari Hospital in Jahrom, Iran.

Zohreh Badiyepeymaiejahromi¹, Farzad Poorgholami², Mahboobeh Taghizadeganzadeh², Zahra Pishgar²and Nehleh Parandavar^*1

¹Research Centre for social Determinants of Health, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, jahrom, Iran. ²Department of Nursing, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.

Corresponding Author E-mail: shaghayegh_ne.2001@yahoo.co

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bbra/2158

ABSTRACT: Sleep is considered as one of the basic physiological needs of the human body, but the discomfort of physical and mental illness can interfere with a person's sleep. Thalassemia major, a disease characterized by reduced blood hemoglobin defect or non production of one of the branches leads to disruption in the process of hematopoiesis and as a result is anemia. The aim of this study was to evaluate sleep quality in patients with thalassemia major referred to Motahari Hospital and its relationship with some blood parameters. This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014. 60 patients with definitive diagnosis of thalassemia who dependent blood transfusion and for transfusion and clinical examination referred to Cooley's ward in the Motahari hospital in Jahrom participated. The subjects responded to questions Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and demographic data, information on indicators of blood and medications were taken from their cases. Based on statistical analysis, Mean score of patients' quality sleep was 4.43±2.87, and 41 cases of the patients (68.33%) had good sleep quality and 19 cases (31.66%) had poor sleep quality, but gender had no significant relationship with sleep quality. Also there was no significant relationship between sleep quality with the mean doses of medications to control blood iron, hemoglobin, ferritin, level of liver enzymes and the frequency of blood transfusion in the last six months. The results of this study show the need to pay more attention to sleep quality of patients with thalassemia. It seems that therapeutic factors such as medications and serum levels of some blood parameters such as hemoglobin, ferritin and was not associated with sleep quality and the importance of personality, psychological and environmental factors in this field to be working.

KEYWORDS: Thalassemia; anemia; sleep quality; patients

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