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Comparison of Sleep Quality in Kidney Transplant Recipients vs. Hemodialysis Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Background and Objective: Determining sleep quality in hemodialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients can provide valuable clinical information for planning treatment and care in this group of patients. Thus, we compared sleep quality between hemodialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients.
Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 60 transplant patients and 60 hemodialysis patients were select-ed using convenience sampling method. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) with 89% validity and 86% reliabil-ity was used to assess patients' sleep quality.
Results: The mean PSQI score was higher in the hemodialysis group (7.78) than the kidney transplantation group (6.15). This indicates that the sleep quality in hemodialysis patients is worse than in patients after kidney transplantation (P = 0.028). The frequency of poor sleep quality in hemodialysis patients was higher than in kidney transplant patients [50(83.3%) vs. 37(61.7%)].
Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that kidney transplant recipients have better sleep quality than hemodial-ysis patients.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.18502/jss.v7i(1-2).13209
Keywords
Sleep quality; Kidney; Transplant recipients; Hemodialysis; Sleep; Chronic kidney diseases

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Shamspour M, Shamspour N, Kharazmi N, Azmandian J, Dehghani A, Zare MR. Comparison of Sleep Quality in Kidney Transplant Recipients vs. Hemodialysis Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study. J Sleep Sci. 2023;7(1-2):10-15.