Short report: sleep quality and associations with health locus of control and coping styles in young people with ankylosing spondylitis

ABSTRACT

The poor sleep of young people with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) has not attracted enough attention of clinicians and experts. This study aimed to evaluate the sleep quality and associations with health locus of control (HLC) and coping styles in young people with AS. A total of 133 patients completed the measures of demographics, disease characteristics, HLC, coping styles, and Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI). The patients were worse than general population in PSQI global score and multiple domains. Among patients, the poor sleep was positively related to chance HLC (CHLC) and resignation. Resignation completely mediated the association between CHLC and sleep. There were severe sleep problems in young people with AS, and strategies to change the resignation coping style should be implemented.

KEYWORDS:

• Ankylosing spondylitis
• young people
• sleep quality
• health locus of control
• coping styles

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [LY], upon reasonable request.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Science and technology research project of Henan province, PR China [grant number 162102310166].