Resumen de Autonomous nursing interventions to improve sleep in palliative care patients: scoping review
Diana Salgueiro, Ana Camões, Ana Sevivas
Introduction: In palliative care, sleep disorders are a challenge, with insomnia and hypersomnia being the most frequently reported. Sleep patterns can be improved by implementation of non-pharmacological interventions.
Objective: To map and synthesize the evidence of autonomous nursing interventions to improve the quality of sleep patterns in palliative care patients.
Methods: Scoping review, based on the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology that follows the eligibility criteria based on Population, Concept and Context. The search was conducted in two databases: CINAHL Complete and MEDLINE Complete. The analysis of the relevance of the articles and data extraction was carried out by two independent reviewers. The inclusion criteria were the adult population, in need of palliative care and the description of non-pharmacological interventions to improve the quality of sleep patterns.
Results: Five studies were analysed and the non-pharmacological interventions present were identified: cognitive-behavioural and environmental intervention, hypnotherapy, the use of lavender oil and therapeutic touch.
Conclusion: All the studies analyzed identify non-pharmacological strategies, which can constitute autonomous nursing interventions that are essential for improving the sleep pattern of palliative care patients. Although the strategies applied were different, all authors demonstrated an effective improvement in the quality of the participants' sleep pattern after implementing them.
