Poor sleep was common among Ethiopian patients with chronic illnesses
A pooled review estimated poor sleep quality in more than half of patients studied, with several associated social and health factors.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
The pooled estimate suggests that poor sleep quality was common among people with chronic medical or mental illnesses in Ethiopia. Several personal, social and health characteristics were associated with poorer sleep. These associations cannot show that changing a particular factor would improve sleep or establish the direction of the relationships.
The abstract does not report the number of included studies, sample size, sleep-quality definitions or assessment periods. Differences in measurement cannot be evaluated from this abstract alone.
What researchers found
Poor sleep quality
Pooled prevalence across the included Ethiopian patient samples; no treatment comparison. Observation periods were not reported.
What the estimate represents
Researchers combined published estimates to describe how common poor sleep quality was in these patient populations. The outcome was sleep quality, so the pooled figure should not be read as the prevalence of a specific diagnosed sleep disorder.
How to interpret the associations
Associated factors included age, sex, substance use, coexisting illnesses, anxiety, depression, social support and sleep hygiene. The review reports relationships among these measures; it does not test whether interventions targeting them would improve sleep.
The original publication
Sleep Quality and Its Determinants Among Patients With Chronic Diseases in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis.
Girma B, Molla A, Feleke A et al.
Biomed Res Int · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 41439110
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