Aim: Similarly to other kinds of cancer, lung cancer has a lot of symptoms that affect the human body in a negative way. One of the worse effects is sleep disturbance. Sleep quality could be changed by many different effects like respiratory and paraneosplastic syndromes.
In that study, we aimed to study the sleep quality and other factors, which effect the sleep quality of patients with lung cancer, especially in an outpatient setting.
Methods: Pittsburgh SQI testwas used on 30 lung cancer patients, regardless of their stage.
Results: We found that 65.4% of the volunteers included in the study had sleep disturbance. In our opinion, sleep quality is in a close relationship with the stage of cancer and it also depends on other complications like metastasis.
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