QUALITY OF SLEEP IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS JUVENILE.

• Grant number: 11/17605-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2011
• End date: March 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Medical Clinics
• Principal Investigator: Simone Appenzeller
• Grantee: Adriana Ferrari
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 08/02917-0 - Blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers associated with structural and functional central nervous system abnormalities in systemic lupus erythematosus, AP.JP

Abstract

Systemic lúpus erytematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that predominantly affects women of childbearing age. Affects multiple organs and lead the individual to death Adult and pediatric patients with SLE have the same clinical characteristics, although children have a more severe course of disease and aggressive, and may have different signs and symptoms early in the illness. The quality of sllep in patients with SLE is very little studied, and has great importance, since a poor quality of sleep leads to disorders such as daytime fatigue and mood changes. Patients with SLE are more likely to sleep fragmentation, due to factors such as depression, nocturnal episodes of pain with no specific origin, associated with neurodegenerative symptoms, shortness of breath, sweating, palpitations and use of medications such as prednisone. We will use Index of Pittsburg Sleep Quality questionnaire to evaluate the quality of sleep of patients, and compare with healthy controls.