Evaluation of sleep quality in patients with trigeminal neuralgia

Background: This cross-sectional study evaluated the relationship between sleep disturbance levels and trigeminal neuralgia (TN) from 2019 to 2020 in the School of Dentistry of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Methods: Forty-nine patients under treatment for TN referring to the Department of Maxillofacial Medicine of the School of Dentistry of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, who were chosen according to availability sampling, were included in the study, and 40 healthy persons were also recruited for the control group. The Persian version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire (PSQI) was used to evaluate the participants’ sleep disturbance. The final results were compared using the chi-square test, and more than 95% reliability was reflected as significant (P 0.05). Results: The mean age was 56.89±10.93 for the TN participants and 37.12±9.55 for the control group. The sleep disturbance of patients with TN was meaningfully higher in comparison with the control group (P 0.0001). The mean level of sleep disturbances in each group between men and women was insignificantly different (P 0.05). However, the mean level of sleep disturbance of women and men in the TN group was meaningfully higher than that of the men and women in the control group (P=0.001). The mean level of sleep disturbance was higher in TN patients only in the age range of 41–50 years (P=0.02). Conclusion: The patients with TN had meaningfully lower levels of sleep quality than the control group.