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Endocrine Abstracts (2016) 43 OC7 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.43.OC7

WCTD2016 Abstract Topics Cardiovascular Outcome Studies (12 abstracts)

The effect of eye mask on sleep quality in patients of coronary care unit

Fatemeh Mashayekhi 1 & Zahra Barzin 2


1MSc Intensive and Critical Care Nursing Lecturer Faculty member of, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran; 2Department of Medical Parasitology, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran.


Objectives: Patients in coronary care unit (CCU) are at risk of sleep deprivation. This study investigated effects of eye mask on sleep quality in patients of CCU in Southeast of Iran by a crossover design.

Methods: Using Verran and Snyder-Halpern Sleep Scale (VSH Sleep Scale), quality sleep of 60 patients with and without usage of eye mask were evaluated. This tool consists of 16 items that includes three main sleep sub scales: disturbance, effectiveness, and supplementation.

Results: In total, 34, 22 and four out of 60 patients were admitted to CCU due to myocardial infarction (MI), chest pain and angina pectoris, respectively. Mean time of patients’ nocturnal sleep was 6.6±1.1 h. Using eye mask have statistically significant increased the quality of sleep in subscales disturbance and effectiveness (P 0.05).

Conclusion: In general, the use of eye mask is an easy and cheap method to improve the quality of sleep in CCU patients.

Keywords: heart diseases, sleep, sleep deprivation.

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