title: Validation of actigraphy to assess circadian organization and sleep quality in patients with advanced lung cancer.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Many cancer patients report poor sleep quality, despite having adequate time and opportunity for sleep. Satisfying sleep is dependent on a healthy circadian time structure and the circadian patterns among cancer patients are quite abnormal. Wrist actigraphy has been validated with concurrent polysomnography as a reliable tool to objectively measure many standard sleep parameters, as well as daily activity. Actigraphic and subjective sleep data are in agreement when determining activity-sleep patterns and sleep quality/quantity, each of which are severely affected in cancer patients. We investigated the relationship between actigraphic measurement of circadian organization and self-reported subjective sleep quality among patients with advanced lung cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  This cross-sectional and case control study was conducted in 84 patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer in a hospital setting for the patients at Midwestern Regional Medical Center (MRMC), Zion, IL, USA and home setting for the patients at WJB Dorn Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Columbia, SC, USA. Prior to chemotherapy treatment, each patient's sleep-activity cycle was measured by actigraphy over a 4-7 day period and sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean age of our patients was 62 years. 65 patients were males while 19 were females. 31 patients had failed prior treatment while 52 were newly diagnosed. Actigraphy and PSQI scores showed significantly disturbed daily sleep-activity cycles and poorer sleep quality in lung cancer patients compared to healthy controls. Nearly all actigraphic parameters strongly correlated with PSQI self-reported sleep quality of inpatients and outpatients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The correlation of daily activity/sleep time with PSQI-documented sleep indicates that actigraphy can be used as an objective tool and/or to complement subjective assessments of sleep quality in patients with advanced lung cancer. These results suggest that improvements to circadian function may also improve sleep quality.
authors: Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Midwestern Regional Medical Center, Zion, IL, USA. jfgrutsch@yahoo.com.
authors: James F
authors: JF
authors: Grutsch
authors: Patricia A
authors: PA
authors: Wood
authors: Jovelyn
authors: J
authors: Du-Quiton
authors: Justin L
authors: JL
authors: Reynolds
authors: Christopher G
authors: CG
authors: Lis
authors: Robert D
authors: RD
authors: Levin
authors: Mary
authors: M
authors: Ann Daehler
authors: Digant
authors: D
authors: Gupta
authors: Dinah Faith T
authors: DF
authors: Quiton
authors: William Jm
authors: WJ
authors: Hrushesky
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