Journal
RESEARCH IN NURSING & HEALTH
Volume 31, Issue 5, Pages 514-528Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20283
Keywords
sleep/rest; aging
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- Hester McLaws Nursing Scholarship
- University of Washington
- School of Nursing
- Center for Women's Health and Gender Research [NR04001, NR081346, AT002108]
- National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Neurology
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A single-group crossover design was used to examine the effects of a worm footbath on body temperatures, distal-proximal skin temperature gradient (DPG), and sleep outcomes in 15 Taiwanese elders with self-reported sleep disturbance. Body temperatures and polysomnography were recorded for three consecutive nights. Participants were assigned randomly to receive a 41 degrees C footbath for 40 minutes before sleep onset on night 2 or night 3. Mean DPG before lights off was significantly elevated on the bathing night. There were no significant differences in sleep outcomes between the two nights. However, when the first two non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep periods were examined, the amount of wakefulness was decreased in the second NREM period on the bathing night. (C) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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