TITLE:
Daily Activities and Sleep Durations of Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease Who Were Discharged to Their Homes after Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
AUTHORS:
Yuko Yasuhara, Tetsuya Tanioka, Rozzano Locsin, Waraporn Kongsuwan, Beth King, Haruo Kobayashi
KEYWORDS:
Actigraphy, Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Actual Night-Time Sleep Duration, Daily Activity
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Psychiatry,
Vol.7 No.4,
September
14,
2017
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between daily activities and sleep durations for patients following elective percutaneous coronary intervention (ePCI) and diagnosed with ischemic heart disease (IHD) after discharge to their homes. The actigraph data were used to collect data from twenty five patients. The duration of night-time sleep (minutes from the start to end of night-time) and actual night-time sleep duration (total sleep duration excluding wake-up durations of night-time) on the seventh day after discharge were divided into three groups; less than 360, 360 to 480, and more than 480 minutes (short, optimal and long respectively). Subsequently, among the three groups of patients, the data were analyzed by Kruskal Wallis H-test with multiple comparison procedures using the Scheffé-test in order to compare differences in daytime activity items at seven days after discharge from the hospital. Total daytime nap duration (p p p p