Qualidade do sono das crianças internadas com síndrome do respirador bucal

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Ailton Alves de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Martins, Mariana Cavalcante, Cardoso, Maria Vera Lúcia Moreira Leitão, Oliveira, Natália Rodrigues, Melo, Gleicia Martins de, Freire, Emilly Karoline
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/45584
• topic: Sono; Respiração Bucal; Saúde da Criança; Criança Hospitalizada

Objective: to analyze the sleep quality in hospitalized children with syndrome of the oral respirator. Method: descriptive research with analytical component and quantitative approach, with 80 children in the age group between 5 to 12 years, being in a hospital in the northeast of Brazil. An interview was conducted with parents or guardians of children and the Pittsburgh Index of Sleep Quality questionnaire was applied. Results: 30 % of children with oral respirators presented very good sleep quality and 43.8 %, good. The components that most interfered in the good sleep quality were: sleep quality (p < 0.001), latency (p < 0.000) and daytime dysfunction (p <0.000), as well as duration of sleep, habitual efficiency of sleep and use of medication for sleep, with p-value without significance. Conclusion: children with oral respirators had good sleep quality according to the perceptions of parents or caregivers.