Relevance to Clinical Practice
The new feature of this work lies in highlighting the relationship between QoL, sleep disorders, and disease progression in COPD patients. The QoL of people with chronic disease is one of the main outcomes pursued by nurses. In this context, nursing interventions on sleep disorders can play a pivotal role to improve the COPD patients’ QoL. The results illustrate the need to increase nurses’ awareness of the strong connection between quality of sleep and QoL in these patients. In nursing care, the early identification of a risk of