Salime Kamalinezhad Author

Research Article Open Access

Sleep Quality and Related Factors in Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review

Author(s):

Jasem Allahyari, Naser Shirani, Mohammad Sadegh Sargholzaei, Farideh Dorkhosh, Salime Kamalinezhad* and Zahra Rahdar

Introduction and objectives: Sleeping is among vital needs of cancer patients to achieve better therapeutic outcomes and confront the disease. Due to the important role of sleeping in cancer patients, current systematic review is conducted to investigate sleep quality of cancer patients in Iran.

Method: Relevant studies were extracted from SID, MAGIRAN, IRANDOC, SCOPUS, PUBMED, WEB OF SCIENCE databases using Cancer, sleep, sleep quality, sleep disturbance key words without time limitations. Then, the extracted data were reported in tables.

Results: 6 studies were assessed in the systematic review collectively. Results of the extracted ... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/0032-745X.1000313

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