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Table 3 Patient understanding of I-SLEEP education (n = 37 patients)

From: Piloting I-SLEEP: a patient-centered education and empowerment intervention to improve patients’ in-hospital sleep

Response themes

% Patients (n)

Representative quote

In your own words, why is sleep important?

 Energy for daily activities and proper functioning

51 (19)

“Sleep helps me function properly during the day.”

 Healing and recovery

46 (17)

“Sleep is important because the body needs to rest, and if not, you can get sick.”

 Medication adherence

3 (1)

“[Sleep is important] so I can get up and not be tired, go do my daily activities, a little bit of exercise, eat on time and take my meds.”

 Proper exercise and eating habits

3 (1)

 Public safety (i.e., driving)

3 (1)

“You’ve got to make sure you get enough sleep because it might be dangerous if you don’t. If you don’t and then you go driving, you could get into an accident.”

In your own words, how can you improve sleep in the hospital?

 Ask care team 3 provided I-SLEEP questions

32 (12)

“I will ask [the care team] the three questions for sure and try to get everything done all at once during the night.”

 Avoid nighttime disruptions

24 (9)

“I have tools now to come up with a plan and discuss moving forward how to avoid getting disturbed at night.”

 Establish regular sleep routine/sleep hours

11 (4)

“Important to get rest, limit people going in and out of the room… to establish a normal sleep routine.”

 Increase sleep comfort

5 (2)

“I need to get as comfortable as possible to get 8 hours of sleep.”

 Not possible to improve sleep in the hospital

3 (1)

“At home I can control my sleep. Here, I’m on ‘their’ time so sleep cannot be improved here.”

  1. Following I-SLEEP, patients were asked two open-ended “teach-back” questions to evaluate their understanding of the educational materials. Thematic analysis of patient responses was conducted