Relationship between traits and sleep quality of hospitalized elderly patients and sleep quality of family caregivers.

Aim: To understand whether the sleep quality of the caregivers of elderly inpatients is associated with their own characteristics and with the characteristics or sleep quality of the elderly inpatients.

Design: A cross-sectional study design that recruited participants from September to December 2020 was adopted, in which 106 pairs of elderly inpatients and caregivers were recruited.

Methods: Data collected from the elderly inpatients included demographic characteristics as well as the numerical rating scale (NRS) score, Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), Geriatric Depression Scale Short Form (GDS-SF) score, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).