1. Neyse F, Daneshmandi M, Sadeghi Sharme M, Ebadi A. The effect of earplugs on sleep quality in patients with acute coronary syndrome. Iranian Journal of Critical Care Nursing. 2011; 4(3):127-34. PMCID: PMC4280735
2. Berman A, Snyder S. Kozier & Erbs Fundamental of nursing, concepts, process and practice. Boston: Pearson; 2012.
3. Mashayekhi F, Arab M, Abazari F. The effects of earplug on perception of sleep in patients of Coronary Care Unit (CCU) educations. Middle East Journal of Nursing. 2013; 7(5):3–8. doi: 10.5742/mejn.2013.75326 [
DOI:10.5742/MEJN.2013.75326]
4. Matthews KA, Strollo Jr PJ, Hall M, Mezick EJ, Kamarck TW, Owens JF, et al. Associations of framingham risk score profile and coronary artery calcification with sleep characteristics in middle-aged men and women: Pittsburgh Sleep SCORE study. Sleep. 2011; 34(6):711-6. doi: 10.5665/SLEEP.1032. [
DOI:10.5665/SLEEP.1032]
5. Hellström A, Willman A. Promoting sleep by nursing interventions in health care settings: A systematic review. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. 2010; 8(3):128–42. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2010.00203.x [
DOI:10.1111/j.1741-6787.2010.00203.x]
6. Urden LD, Stacy KM, Lough ME. Critical care nursing, Diagnosis and management. Amsterdam: Elsevier Health Sciences; 2014.
7. Dadgari A, Yaghmaie F, Shahnazarian J, Dadvar L. [Survay of nurses knowledge , attitude and practice in prevention of ICU syndrom (Persian)]. Knowledge & Health Journal. 2007; 2(3):28-35. doi: 10.22100/jkh.v2i3.245
8. Zolfaghari M, Farokhnezhad Afshar P, Asadi Noghabi A A, Ajri Khameslou M. [Modification of environmental factors on quality of sleep among patients admitted to CCU (Persian)]. Hayat. 2013; 18(4):61-68
9. Eliassen KM, Hopstock LA. Sleep promotion in the intensive care unit: A survey of nurses' interventions. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 2011; 27(3):138–42. doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2011.03.001 [
DOI:10.1016/j.iccn.2011.03.001]
10. Xie H, Kang J, Mills GH. Clinical review: The impact of noise on patients' sleep and the effectiveness of noise reduction strategies in intensive care units. Critical Care. 2009; 13(2):208.-15. doi: 10.1186/cc7154 [
DOI:10.1186/cc7154]
11. Schiza SE, Simantirakis E, Bouloukaki I, Mermigkis C, Arfanakis D, Chrysostomakis S, et al. Sleep patterns in patients with acute coronary syndromes. Sleep Medicine. 2010; 11(2):149–53. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2009.07.016 [
DOI:10.1016/j.sleep.2009.07.016]
12. Arab M, Mashayekhi F, Ranjbar H, Abazari F, Dortaj E. [Comparing the effects of using Earplugs and eye masks on sleep quality of patients in coronary care unit (CCU) (Persian)]. Annals of Military and Health Sciences Research. 2013; 11(2):143-9.
13. Taylor CR, Lillis C, Lemon P, Lynn P. Fundamental of nursing: The art and science of nursing. Philadelphia: Wolter Kluwer; 2014.
14. Kamdar BB, Needham DM, Collop NA. Sleep deprivation in critical illness. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine . 2011; 27(2):97–111. doi: 10.1177/0885066610394322 [
DOI:10.1177/0885066610394322]
15. Richardson A, Allsop M, Coghill E, Turnock C. Earplugs and eye masks: Do they improve critical care patients' sleep. Nursing in Critical Care. 2007; 12(6):278–86. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-5153.2007.00243.x [
DOI:10.1111/j.1478-5153.2007.00243.x]
16. Martin KA. The effect of earplugs on perceived sleep quality of acute care patients [PhD Dissertation]. Bozeman, Montana: Montana State University-Bozeman; 2008.
17. Yazdannik AR, Zareie A, Hasanpour M, Kashefi P. The effect of earplugs and eye mask on patients' perceived sleep quality in intensive care unit. Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research. 2014; 19(6):673-8. PMCID: PMC4280735 [
PMID] [
PMCID]
18. Jones C, Dawson D. Eye masks and earplugs improve patient's perception of sleep. Nursing in Critical Care. 2012; 17(5):247-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-5153.2012.00501.x [
DOI:10.1111/j.1478-5153.2012.00501.x]
19. Hofhuis JGM, Langevoort G, Rommes JH, Spronk PE. Sleep disturbances and sedation practices in the intensive care unit: A postal survey in the Netherlands. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 2012; 28(3):141–9. doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2011.10.006 [
DOI:10.1016/j.iccn.2011.10.006]
20. Kaplow R. Sleep disturbances and critical illness. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America. 2016; 28(2):169–82. doi: 10.1016/j.cnc.2016.02.005 [
DOI:10.1016/j.cnc.2016.02.005]