title: Dream anxiety in renal transplant recipients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Although low quality of sleep has been reported in kidney transplant patients with functioning allografts, there are no previous studies investigating the dreams of these patients. We aimed to investigate the differences in dream anxiety level between renal transplant patients and healthy control subjects. We also planned to compare depression and anxiety symptoms, sleep quality and sleepiness level between these two groups.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-two living-donor renal transplant recipients followed at an outpatient nephrology clinic and 22 healthy controls were enrolled in this observational cross-sectional study. Sociodemographic Data Collection Form, and the Van Dream Anxiety Scale (VDAS), the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories were used for the assessment of the necessary features. Hemoglobin (Hb), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine (Cr) and glucose levels were measured.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were no significant differences between the groups in terms of dream anxiety (p = 0.45), depression (p = 0.76), sleep quality (p = 0.8), insomnia severity (p = 0.08) and Hb (p = 0.11) and glucose levels (p = 0.14). Although, BUN (p = 0.00) and creatinine (p = 0.00) levels differed significantly between the two groups, both parameters were found to be within their normal range.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In our study, chronic renal failure patients with a successful kidney transplant were found to be able to completely return to normal in terms of metabolic parameters, sleep quality and mood. Similar levels of dream anxiety are also consistent with these findings.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychiatry , Hitit University Çorum Education and Research Hospital , Çorum , Turkey .
authors.forename: Ece
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yazla
authors.forename: Sultan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozkurt
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Musmul
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004325:Dreams / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011788:Quality of Life; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012890:Sleep; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; D066027:Transplant Recipients / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Renal transplantation and affective disorders; renal transplantation and psychiatry; renal transplantation and sleep