Prevalence of Sleep Disorders among Ardabil City’s People: North-West of Iran

Objective: Sleep disorders can directly and indirectly affect the life of individuals and related with individual mortality and health. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of sleep disorders in Ardabil city’s people. Methods: This is a descriptive cross sectional study that has been done on 196 randomly selected people. Data collected by a questionnaire includes demographic and sleep disorders questions and then analyzed by statistical methods in SPSS version 16. Results: 91 (46.4%) of cases were male and rest of them were female. The mean age of participants was 33.5 ± 12.6. The prevalence of sleep disorders in female and male were 44.9% and 42.4%; respectively. 18.4% of all people used Sleeping drugs. 55.1% of people have problem in falling asleep. There was a significant relationship between the satisfaction level of sleep quality and difficulty in falling asleep, drinking coffee late at night, taking sleep drugs, sleepy during the day and age of individuals. Conclusion: Results showed that the prevalence of sleep disorders in this study was higher than general population. So, using appropriate methods to improving people’s sleep quality and control sleep disorders between them is necessary