Sleep disorders: impact on daytime functioning and quality of life

Abstract

This article provides an overview of the daytime symptoms associated with the most common sleep disorders, namely insomnia, restless legs syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and shift wake–sleep disorder. Psychological and social dysfunction resulting from these sleep disturbances are explained and discussed in detail. Health-related quality of life is a concept that reflects the changes in diverse aspects of subjective wellbeing of the patients due to an illness. Therefore, studies reporting quality-of-life issues associated with the aforementioned sleep disorders will also be presented. Finally, we review the limited data regarding the effects of treatment on quality-of-life outcomes.

Keywords::

• daytime functioning
• insomnia
• mental health
• obstructive sleep apnea
• quality of life
• restless legs syndrome
• shiftwork
• shiftwork-related sleep disorder
• sleep disorder

Acknowledgements

We thank Istvan Mucsi for critically reading the manuscript.

Financial & competing interests disclosure

The work of the authors is supported by grants from the National Research Fund (OTKA) (T-048767, TS-049785) and from the Scientific Committee for Healthcare (100/2006) and the Foundation for Prevention in Medicine. Márta Novák has been supported by a grant from the Center for Integrative Mood Research, Toronto, Canada. This paper was also supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Marta Novak). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

Notes

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