Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine (eBook)

Joris C. Verster, S. R. Pandi-Perumal, David L. Streiner (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 2008
XVIII, 534 Seiten
Humana Press (Verlag)
978-1-60327-343-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Many patients experience sleep disturbances secondary to their primary illness and this often has a negative effect on their quality of life. This book provides an evidence-based introduction to the interface between sleep wide range of medical disorders. A clinically focused, comprehensive review for physicians and other health providers, this state-of-the-art reference can also serve as a textbook for those who wish to become familiar with the impact of sleep on quality of life.

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Had you looked up "e;quality of life"e; (QOL) in Index Medicus premature deaths. Procedures ranging from joint replacement priorto1975,yoursearchwouldhavebeenfruitless. Although and coronary bypass surgery to treatments for arthritis and thetermwasmostlikely?rstintroducedbyKarnofskyin1949 sleep disturbances do little to increase longevity; rather, they within the realm of chemotherapy for cancer patients (1), it make it easier for the person to function in his or her daily was not used as a key word in Index Medicus for another 26 life. A cynical perspective would say that clinicians are now interested in QOL to justify their existence, as interventions years. Since that time, there has been an exponential growth in such as hip replacement cannot be rationalized on the basis the number of articles about QOL. Figure 1 shows the number of preserving lives. However, as people live longer, they do of unique articles cited each year in Medline and PsycInfo: 7 in fact become more susceptible to disorders and conditions in 1970, 331 in 1980, not quite 1800 in 1990, slightly over that interfere with activities of daily living and consequently 6000 in 2000, and nearly 11,000 in 2005. Once the domain of decrease their QOL. mainly medicine and psychology, QOL has found its way into A second factor is the realization that QOL is not syno- every aspect of health care, including physiotherapy, oc- mous with the absence of symptoms: patients with serious pational therapy, social work, nursing, and others.

Inhalt

Preface 6
Credits and Acknowledgments 8
Contents 9
Contributors 12
1 Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine 15
2 Patient Versus Proxy Ratings of Quality of Life 24
3 Criteria for Evaluating Quality of Life Measurement Tools 31
4 Human Sleep 41
5 Sleep Disorders 49
6 Sleep and Quality of Life in Insomnia 58
7 Effects of Hypnotics on Sleep and Quality of Life in Insomnia 63
8 Melatonin and Quality of Life 77
9 Sleep and Quality of Life in Sleep Apnea 88
10 Sleep and Quality of Life in Narcolepsy 101
11 Sleep and Quality of Life in Restless Legs Syndrome 108
12 Quality of Life in Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Hypersomnia 114
13 Sleep and Quality of Life in REM Sleep Parasomnia 126
14 Sleep and Quality of Life in Non-REM-Related Parasomnias 134
15 Sleep and Quality of Life in Older People 138
16 Sleep and Quality of Life in Children 146
17 Sleep and Quality of Life in Traumatic Brain Injury and Guillain – Barr ´ e Syndrome 153
18 Sleep and Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s Disease and the Dementias 161
19 Sleep and Quality of Life in Headache and Migraine 167
20 Sleep and Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Disease 180
21 Sleep and Quality of Life in Chronic Pain 191
22 Sleep and Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis 202
23 Sleep and Quality of Life in Neuromuscular Disease 211
24 Sleep and Quality of Life in Autism 223
25 Sleep and Quality of Life in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 230
26 Sleep and Quality of Life in Anxiety Disorders 240
27 Sleep and Quality of Life in Depression 251
28 Sleep and Quality of Life in ADHD 261
29 Sleep and Quality of Life in Eating Disorders 281
30 Sleep and Quality of Life in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 290
31 Sleep and Quality of Life in Schizophrenia 297
32 Sleep, Psychological Trauma, and Quality of Life 310
33 Caffeine, Sleep, and Quality of Life 321
34 Sleep, Alcohol, and Quality of Life 329
35 Drugs of Abuse, Sleep, and Quality of Life 336
36 Sleep, Sleep Disorders, and Quality of Life in People Who Have Cardiovascular Disease 342
37 Sleep and Quality of Life in Heart Failure and Stroke 349
38 Sleep and Quality of Life in Cardiac Surgery 361
39 Quality of Life and Sleep Disturbances in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease 368
40 Sleep and Quality of Life in Allergic Rhinitis 371
41 Sleep and Quality of Life in Renal Disease 380
42 Sleep Disorders and Quality of Life in Patients After Kidney Transplantation 391
43 Sleep and Quality of Life in Nocturia and Nocturnal Polyuria 400
44 Sleep and Quality of Life in Cystic Fibrosis 412
45 Sleep and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 421
46 Sleep and Quality of Life in Obesity 432
47 Sleep and Quality of Life in Endocrine Diseases 440
48 Sleep and Quality of Life in Diabetes 447
49 Sleep and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients 455
50 Sleep and Quality of Life in Head and Neck Neoplasm 468
51 Menopause, Sleep, and Quality of Life 474
52 Sleep and Quality of Life in Pregnancy and Postpartum 481
53 Sleep and Quality of Life in HIV and AIDS 489
Index 499

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.2.2008
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 534 p. 40 illus.
• Verlagsort: Totowa
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Allgemeinmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Schlagworte: Alzheimer • Alzheimer's disease • chronic pain • Depression • heart • Medicine • migraine • Obesity • Pain • Parkinson • quality of life • Schizophrenia • Stress • Surgery • Trauma
• ISBN-10: 1-60327-343-3 / 1603273433
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60327-343-5 / 9781603273435