SLEEP QUALITY AND AFFECTING FACTORS AMONG ELDERLY LIVING IN A NURSING HOME AT EAST NUSA TENGGARA INDONESIA

Sleep is one of the processes that greatly affects aging, It essential for mental, physical, and maintenance of physical health. Kupang East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, a research study in a nursing home of the elderly experience have a bad quality of sleep. This study aimed to analyze the sleep quality and the factors affecting, among old age living in a nursing home at East Nusa Tenggara Indonesia. The research design was cross-sectional with primary data on 103 elderly living in nursing homes. There was a relationship between age, gender, marital status, spouse, education background, have a chronic diseases, living arrangement, anxiety, and depression with sleep quality (p<0.05). The correlation showed that there was a strong and positive patterned relationship (