• Farzaneh Habibi, MahdaviSadegh BaradaranSBPoursina Hakim Digestive Diseases Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.Child Growth and Develo, KhaniabadiBita MoradiBMChild Growth and Development Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention and Non-Communicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran., Mohammad Emadoddin Habibi, Ali Gharavinia, Abdolmehdi Baghaei, and Mohammad Hassan Emami.
• Poursina Hakim Digestive Diseases Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
• J Res Med Sci. 2019 Jan 1; 24: 59.

BackgroundSleep is essential in maintaining health and quality of life. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients suffer from poor sleep quality. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of sleep disturbances in Iranian IBD patients as well as the variables which can be attributed to the quality of sleep in IBD patients.Materials And MethodsSeventy-one patients filled in Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Disease activity was assessed by Crohn's Disease (CD) Activity Index and Ulcerative Colitis (UC) Activity Index. Regression analysis was used to identify the association between sociodemographic and disease characteristics with sleep quality.ResultsWe found that 32.4% of all patients, 23.1% of patients with "in remission to mild" disease, and 66.7% of patients with "moderate" disease, had poor sleep quality. CD patients were more likely to have poor sleep quality comparing UC ones in crude (odds ratio [OR] =2.14; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.14-4.04) and adjusted (OR = 6.19; 95% CI 1.13, 34.07) models. Patients with good quality of sleep had lower systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure (P = 0.09 and 0.035 respectively).ConclusionNotable percentage of IBD patients suffer from poor sleep quality even in the remission phase. Treatment of sleep disturbances, especially in CD patients, is recommended in the IBD patient-care program.

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