Prevalence of Sleep Disorders after Stroke

Abstract

is one of the most important causes of worldwide mortality and morbidity. As it is known that sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) could be a risk factor for stroke, stroke could cause sleep disorders that may prolong hospitalization and make rehabilitation difficult. Sleep disorders may also be responsible for patient's bad prognosis or stroke recurrence if they are not properly managed. This is a descriptive study that is designed to describe prevalence of sleep disorders after stroke and its severity for a selected number of patients from an outpatient stroke clinic at a time extending to the first three months after stroke through questionnaires. These questionnaires are sleep disorder questionnaire, Pittsburg sleep quality index, Epworth sleepiness scale and Apnea hypo-apnea index. In this study, sleep disorders are found to be common up to (88%) of the total number of patients. They could be categorized into main four groups; Sleep disordered breathing, parasomnia, hypersomnia and insomnia, respectively according to prevalence. The most common type of them is sleep disordered breathing (SDB) which constitutes a part up