Sleep Disturbance Mediates the Association of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Pain in Patients With Cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: The relationships among PTSD symptoms, pain intensity, and pain interference could be explained by co-occurring sleep disturbance. Given the high frequency of PTSD symptoms among patients with cancer and PTSD's known links to sleep problems and pain, clinicians should be attentive to the role that traumatogenic processes may play in eliciting sleep and pain-related complaints among patients with cancer.
PMID: 29084448 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - January 1, 2017 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Lillis TA, Gerhart J, Bouchard LC, Cvengros J, O'Mahony S, Kopkash K, Kabaker KB, Burns J Tags: Am J Hosp Palliat Care Source Type: research