A study to assess quality of sleep and sleep hygiene among patients with haemodialysis at selected hospital
International Journal of Development Research
A study to assess quality of sleep and sleep hygiene among patients with haemodialysis at selected hospital
Received 18th June, 2017; Received in revised form 19th July, 2017; Accepted 24th August, 2017; Published online 30th September, 2017
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Aim of the study: - To A study to assess quality of sleep and sleep hygiene among patients with haemodialysis. Background: Sleep is important process for overall physical and mental well-being. Sleep is referred a regular, recurring and easily revocable state of organism which is characterized by relative immobility and significant increase in response threshold to environmental stimuli. Sleep is an important and basic need of human and which takes approximately 1/3 of one’s lifetime process. Disturbed sleep common among patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) on haemodialysis (HD). The prevalence of abnormal sleep in this population (60-85%) is substantially greater than that reported in the general population. The most common sleep disturbances among ESRD patients because of irregularity in sleeping habits, difficulty falling asleep, early morning awakening, frequent awakening at night, sleep apnoea, periodic limb movement during sleep and restless legs syndrome. Design: Descriptive research design. Methods: Non – probability - Convenience Sampling Technique was used to select the samples for this study. A total of 50 patients participated in the study. Pittsburgh sleep assessment scale and sleep hygiene assessment questionnaire was used to assess the quality of sleep and sleep hygiene for data collection. Result frequency and percentage distribution of selected demographic variables among patient with Haemodialysis is 15(30%) were in the age group of 31 – 40 years, 26(52%) were female, 41(82%) were married, 21(42%) had high school education, 43(86%) doing low physical activity, 22(44) are doing dialysis 7-9months and 20(40) had co morbidity of HTN, DM The mean score of quality of sleep was 62.57±13.41 and mean score of quality of sleep hygiene was 51.4±15.77 among patients with Hemodialysis . Conclusion: The study finding revealed that assessment results show that the quality of sleep ad sleep hygiene was poor among haemodialysis patient.
