A pilot study to assess sleep hygiene in elective cancer surgery
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A pilot study to assess factors that impact the quality of sleep and sleep efficiency in patients undergoing elective colorectal or oesophago-gastric cancer surgery.
IRAS ID
242234
Contact name
Krishna Moorthy
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
NA, NA
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 0 days
Research summary
Sleep abnormalities are common and under-recognised in hospitalised patients and can worsen an already altered health status. Improvement in sleep efficiency in hospitalised patients can be associated with a decrease in morbidity, duration of hospital-stay and improvement in post-operative quality of life. Maintaining quality care requires a comprehensive and systematic approach to patient engagement with the formulation of standardised clinical care pathways. Enhanced Recovery Pathways (ERPs) are well established and have been created to facilitate accelerated and safe hospital discharge. This is a pilot study in which we aim to establish and identify factors that impact patients' sleep efficiency during enhanced recovery. In the future, this could enable us to make changes to improve quality of sleep and integrate as part of the patients ERP.
In the study we do not expect participants to do anything beyond the normal clinical course. Nothing extra is required from them that would influence or lead to deviation from the norm. We only require for them to fill out questionnaires regarding their sleep and furthermore, wear a device (smart watch) which will record their sleep pattern.
REC name
West Midlands - Solihull Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/WM/0217
Date of REC Opinion
4 Oct 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion