“…Cunha, Zanetti and Hass (2008), in one of the scarce studies that assessed sleep in Type 2 Diabetes, analyzed 50 patients, 76% women, 52% married, with ages between 44-79 years, and through the PSQI concluded that the majority (52%) had a poor sleep quality (score ≥5). Likewise, Knutson et al (2006) assessed 161 subjects and Vigg (2003) assessed 220 subjects, both with patients with Type 2 Diabetes, concluded that 71% presented a PSQI score ≥5, showing that Type 2 Diabetes is associated with sleeping problems (Barone & Menna-Barreto, 2011). Rajendran et al (Rajendran, Parthsarathy, Tamilselvan, Seshadri, & Shuaib, 2012) evaluated 120 patients with Type 2 Diabetes (55 women), with a mean age of 53.9 years (SD=9.20) and concluded that the average length of Diabetes diagnosis (7.41±5.90) was positively correlated with the total PSQI score (r=0.181; p<0.050), suggesting that Diabetes duration has a strong influence on patient's sleep (the data was independent of variables as age, gender, body mass index or meds).…”