Efficacy of Designed Exercise Program on Pain and Quality of Sleeping in Patient With Sickle Cell Disease Anemia.

Background: Pain and sleep disturbance are the most common problems experienced by adult patients with sickle cell disease anemia. Aim: the aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of designed exercise program on pain, and quality of sleeping in adult patients with sickle cell disease anemia and how the program affects their quality of lives. Subjects and methods: Adults patients with sickle cell diseases aging over 18 years old. Data will be collected in face-to-face interviews. Eligible participants will be equally and randomized into two groups. Group-1: Twenty-five adult patients with SCD will receive a designed exercise program of physical therapy for relief pain and improve sleep quality (experimental group). The designed exercise program will be distributed on everyone. The recommendations will be to train from 30 to 45 minutes, three days per week for 6 weeks in addition to walking daily 30 minutes on the ground surface. Group-2: Twenty-five adult patients with SCD will participate as a control group they will not receive exercise program. Analysis: The collected data will be managed by using t -test and the repeated measures of ANOVA test to compare the significance within groups and between two groups.