The Study of Sleep Quality and relationship with some personal characteristics in the elderly residing in nursing homes in Isfahan

Abstracts of the National Conference on Applied Research in Health Promotion, 27-28 November 2013, Isfahan, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, p. 26. Abstract: Introduction: Today, the phenomenon of aging with its various dimensions is one of the serious issues in developing and developing countries. Sleep quality is an important indicator of health in the elderly. Research has shown that poor quality sleep after headache and digestive disorders is in the third issue of the elderly. Knowing the quality of sleep in the elderly and its effective factors helps to take measures to improve it, but few studies have been conducted in this regard. Therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the quality of sleep in elderly and some related individual factors. Methods: This is a descriptive and cross sectional study conducted in the fall of 2011. A total of 91 elderly residents of the elderly population of Isfahan were selected by stratified random sampling. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire on personal and health information and Pittsburgh standard sleep quality questionnaire. The data were analyzed by software PASS and using descriptive statistics and Chi-square, Koras Kalwalis and co-correlation coefficients. Results: The mean age of the subjects was 77.3 ± 9.4 years, 67% were female and 58% were illiterate. 90.1% of them had poor sleep quality. Data analysis showed a significant relationship between sleep quality with age (P = 0.002), walking and physical activity (P = 0.001), self care activities (P = 0.036), meeting with relatives (001 / (P = 0.02), but there was no significant correlation between sleep quality with gender, current disease, smoking and marital status (P