• Anna Peterson and Anne Söderlund Schaller.
• ain and Rehabilitation Center, and Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. Electronic address: anne.schaller@liu.se.
• Pain Manag Nurs. 2022 Dec 1; 23 (6): 878884878-884.

BackgroundPrevious studies show that pain is common among hospital inpatients.AimThis study measures the prevalence of pain and the impact of pain on sleep in patients admitted to five hospitals in Sweden.MethodsThe patients were admitted to a surgical or a medical ward. They answered on a self-reported questionnaire about their average pain intensity and how much their pain interfered with their sleep the previous 24 hours, on a 010 numerical rating scale (NRS).ResultsOf the 500 patients, 308 experienced pain (62%), (NRS ≥ 3) and 111 (22%) rated their pain as NRS ≥ 7. We found no difference between surgical and medical specialty regarding pain prevalence. The results suggest that roughly the same proportion of patients with pain also experienced poor sleep due to pain265 patients (53%) reported pain interference on sleep, NRS ≥ 3.Conclusions And Clinical ImplicationsThis study shows that there is still an unacceptable high pain prevalence in inpatients and that patients experience pain as negatively impacting their sleep. Future pain care is likely to include a more comprehensive implementation strategy for the dissemination of knowledge, especially related to the complex context of today's healthcare system. That is, the possibility that anchoring new knowledge also benefits the patient is probably associated with optimization of the structural context. Future research should take this question further by examining how the organizational structure should be optimized for the dissemination of knowledge in healthcare professionals about pain and pain interference with sleep.Copyright © 2022 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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