Sleep disruption after brain injury is associated with worse motor outcomes and slower functional recovery

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 Sleep disruption after brain injury is associated with worse motor outcomes and slower functional recovery

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (NNR) , Volume 34(7) , Pgs. 661-671.

NARIC Accession Number: J84095.  What's this?
ISSN: 1545-9683.
Author(s): Fleming, Melanie K. ; Smejk, Tom ; Slater, David H.; van Gils, Veerle ; Garratt, Emma ; Kara, Ece Y.; Johansen-Berg, Heidi.
Publication Year: 2020.
Number of Pages: 9.

Abstract: 

Study investigated the relationship between sleep quality and motor recovery in 59 patients with brain injury patients receiving inpatient rehabilitation. Sleep quality was assessed (up to 3 times) objectively using actigraphy (7 nights) and subjectively using the Sleep Condition Indicator. Motor outcome assessments included Action Research Arm test (upper-limb function), Fugl-Meyer Assessment (motor impairment), and the Rivermead Mobility Index. The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) was assessed at admission and discharge by the clinical team. Fifty-five age- and gender-matched healthy controls completed one assessment. Inpatients demonstrated lower self-reported sleep quality and more fragmented sleep than controls. For inpatients, sleep fragmentation explained significant additional variance in motor outcomes, over and above that explained by admission FIM score such that more disrupted sleep was associated with poorer motor outcomes. Using stepwise linear regression, sleep fragmentation was the only variable found to explain variance in rate of change in FIM, whereby more disrupted sleep was associated with slower recovery. Results suggest that inpatients with brain injury demonstrate impaired sleep quality, and this is associated with poorer motor outcomes and slower functional recovery. Further investigation is needed to determine how sleep quality can be improved and whether this affects outcome.
Descriptor Terms: BRAIN INJURIES, LIMBS, MOBILITY IMPAIRMENTS, MOTOR SKILLS, REHABILITATION, SLEEP DISORDERS.


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Citation: Fleming, Melanie K. , Smejk, Tom , Slater, David H., van Gils, Veerle , Garratt, Emma , Kara, Ece Y., Johansen-Berg, Heidi. (2020). Sleep disruption after brain injury is associated with worse motor outcomes and slower functional recovery.  Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (NNR) , 34(7), Pgs. 661-671. Retrieved 8/19/2020, from REHABDATA database.