Study to assess whether staff are able to accurately assess sleep quality and quantity in intensive care patients

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Sleep deprivation is recognised as an important cause of morbidity after ICU admission, but most centres do not routinely assess their patients' sleep. Considering the invasive nature and costs associated with objective sleep measurements, they are unsuitable for routine use. Subjective measurements offer an easy-to-use and economical alternative, the most well validated of which is the Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire (RCSQ). This can be used to derive an accurate estimation of the sleep efficiency index (SEI), a well-validated measure of sleep. However, there are several concerns regarding patients reporting their sleep quality and quantity using these questionnaires [ 1 ]. Additionally, they cannot be used to assess sleep in sedated or delirious patients. It has been suggested that one way to bypass the drawbacks of patients assessing their own sleep would be to utilise nursing staff [ 1 ]. Previous smaller scare studies have since agreed with this suggestion [ 2 ]. This study aimed to assess whether staff were able to use the RCSQ to accurately assess their patients' sleep.

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