Patients with schizophrenia often present sleep complaints [1], even while being medicated and clinically stable, which can negatively affect their quality of life [2] and be sufficiently severe to warrant clinical attention.
Nowadays, besides symptomatic control, the aim of clinicians is to improve schizophrenia patients’ social functioning, quality of life, and satisfaction with life (SWL). To accomplish this, physiologic sleep may be necessary.
General SWL has been associated with symptoms, cognition, health-related quality of life, and medical comorbidity [3–5]. Higher burden has been reported for caregivers of schizophrenia patients with higher symptom severity, disruptive or difficult behavior, younger age, and patients’ need for care [6–10].
Given the importance of sleep in schizophrenia, we aimed to assess the differences in SWL between patients with and without self-reported sleep disturbances and that of their caregivers, as well as the degree of family support, since we found no previous reports on this subject.