17. Characteristics of sleep in partents with depressive episode at the national institute of mental health – Bach Mai Hospital

Le Thi Thu Ha, Nguyen Van Tuan, Le Thi Cam Huong

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Our cross-sectional study aims to describe the characteristics of sleep of depressive patients at the National Institute of Mental Health – Bach Mai Hospital. A total of 55 patients diagnosed with depressive episode (F32.0, F32.1, F32.2, F32.3) according to ICD10 criteria had sleep problems; patients’ information including medical history, clinical examination, para clinical parameters, and a consent agreement signed by patients and their family were collected. Female patients in depressive episode is 1.62 times higher than male patients, the most common age range is 50 - 59 years old (30.9%), the onset time to clinical treatment time is common from 3 to 6 months (45.5%). The most common severity of hospitalization being a major depressive episode without psychotic symptoms (52.7%). Assessing the patient's sleep pattern, we found that the average time from going to bed to falling asleep was 88.55 minutes, waking up during the night 2.42 times, getting up earlier than usual 2.23 hours. Each night, patients sleep about 3 hours and the sleep efficiency was low (48.21%). The majority of patients had insomnia, sleep restlessness (78.2%), and nightmares (20%). Among the types of insomnia, waking up earlier than usual accounted for the highest rate (69.08%), difficulty falling asleep (67.27%) and difficulty maintaining sleep (63.63%). 56.36% of patients have complete insomnia.

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