A study to evaluate the effectiveness of earplugs and eye mask on quality of sleep among subjects admitted in critical care units, Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: “A study to evaluate the effectiveness of earplugs and eye mask on quality of sleep among subjects admitted in critical care units, Government Rajaji Hospital”. OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the pre-test level of quality of sleep among experimental and control group. 2. To assess the post-test level of quality of sleep among experimental and control group. 3. To evaluate the effectiveness of earplugs and eye mask on level of quality of sleep among experimental group. 4. To compare the level of quality of sleep between experimental and control group. 5. To associate between pre-test and posttest level of quality of sleep with selected demographic variable. The framework of the study was based on Roy’s adaptation model. The study was conducted in intensive medical care unit and intensive coronary care unit of Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai. The quasi-experimental Nonequivalent control group design was adopted for this study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the 60 samples each 30 for experimental and control group. Verran & Snyder-Halpern sleep scale, a visual analog scale was used for data collection. The data was collected, organized and were analyzed in terms of both descriptive and inferential statistics. THE SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS OF THE STUDY WERE: 1. The finding of the study demonstrated that the total mean score disturbance characteristics of experimental group was 295 (SD 30.45) and it was 319 (SD 28.2) in control group. 2. The mean score of sleep effectiveness characteristics of experimental group was 319 (SD17.44) and 291.2 (SD 30.4) was mean score of control group. 3. The mean sleep supplementation characteristics of intervention group was 88.67 (SD 17.37) and 112.3 (SD 26.9) was the mean score of control group. 4. The mean score of pre test disturbance scale (316.3) is higher than posttest score (289). 5. The mean score of the pre test effectiveness scale (297.5) is lower than posttest score (321). 6. The mean pre test score of sleep supplementation scale (112.17) is higher than the posttest mean score (88.33). 7. The ‘t’ value computed was highly significant (t (29) =2.89 -sleep disturbance score, 3.59-effectiveness scale and 6.71, table value t (29) =1.70, p<0.05) between pre test and posttest level of sleep score among experimental group. This finding showed that the earplugs and eye mask was effective in improving quality of sleep among clients admitted in critical care units. 8. The findings of the present study revealed that the ‘t’ value computed between experimental and control group, was highly significant (t (58) disturbance scale=3.07, effectiveness scale-4.4 and supplementation scale=2.99, table value t (58) 1.670, p