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Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Sleep Quality and Related Symptoms in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Key takeaways

This review combined many trials on sleep help for people on dialysis. It found that non-drug methods improved sleep quality. These methods also lowered anxiety and depression scores. This is strong evidence that these methods work for kidney patients.

Who did this work

Huang X (Department of Nephrology, The Fifth Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University (Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital), Taiyuan 030012, China.) · Ren X (Department of Nephrology, The Fifth Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University (Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital), Taiyuan 030012, China.) · Hao Y (Department of Nephrology, The Fifth Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University (Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital), Taiyuan 030012, China.) · Zhao L (Department of Nephrology, The Fifth Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University (Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital), Taiyuan 030012, China.) · Zhao Z (Department of Nephrology, The Fifth Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University (Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital), Taiyuan 030012, China.) · Wang R (Department of Nephrology, The Fifth Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University (Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital), Taiyuan 030012, China.) · Zhou X (Department of Nephrology, The Fifth Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University (Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital), Taiyuan 030012, China.)

Source

Paper · Europe PMC, CKD mind-body · 2026-09-09
https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare14182921