Dana Ciobotea, Costela Serban, Camelia Bogdanici, Brigitha Vlaicu<br>Sleep Characteristics and State of Well - Being in Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery in Timisoara, Romania

Dana Ciobotea, Costela Serban, Camelia Bogdanici, Brigitha Vlaicu
Sleep Characteristics and State of Well - Being in Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery in Timisoara, Romania

Abstract:

Our study aimed to investigate sleep characteristics and the state of well-being connected to presurgical and evolutive eye pathology, between pre- and postsurgical assessments, in the context of clinical benefits of prosthetic lens replacement in patients who adressed the Clinic of Ophthalmology in Timisoara in 2015. The study group included 53 patients diagnosed with cataract, 49.1% men, with the mean age for the entire group 70.1±8.3 years. The work methods consisted in conducting a transversal populational study involving presurgical and postsurgical use of the WHO Questionnaire for the 5 criteria of the sate of well-being (WHO-5); the investigation of sleep duration and qualitatuive perception; testing for the visual acuity (VA); phacoemulsification for lens replacement. After processing invividual data the following results were obtained: The assessment one month after cataract surgery shows a significant increase of sleep duration and quality and a significant improvement of the WHO-5 index, with no patients reporting sleep duration under 5 hours or a WHO-5 index under 13 points which would represent a threshold indicative for the diagnosis of depression. The addressability to cataract surgery in Romania and the benefits of early surgical treatment are discussed. Keywords: sleep duration, state of well-being, cataract patients

Issue: 2016, Volume 67, Issue 9

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