Factors Predicting Sleep Quality in the Elderly at Thamboon Nongsung, Muang, Udon Thani

Abstract

            The purpose of this research is to study the sleep quality in elderly at Thamboon Nongsung muang, Udon Thani. Two hundred and eighty-five elderly people were selected by simple random sampling. The instruments were demographic questions, Thai version of the Pittsburgh Sleep. Quality Index: T-PSQI, Thai geriatric depression scale, TGDS). The reliability of the instrument was 0.87. The prevalence of sleep problem data were analyzed by frequency and mean. The associated factors of sleep quality were analyzed by Chi-square test. The predictors of sleep quality were analyzed by logistic regression analysis and adjusted OR (OR_adj.) with 95% confidence interval were presented.

          The results showed that the prevalence of poor sleep quality (PSQI > 5) in the elderly was 57.89% and the good sleep quality was 42.11%. The mean sleep duration was 7.57 hours. Most elderly went to bed at 8.00 p.m. and wake up at 4.00 a.m. The mean duration time from bed time to get sleep was 33.21 minutes. The mean sleep efficiency was 88.30%. The associated factors of sleep quality were depression, medical conditions, sufficiency of income, environment with interference and caffeine consumption. The predictors of the poor sleep quality were depression and medical conditions (p < 0.05).

           This study suggested the research study should be conducted in a larger sample size to get appropriate samples to analyze the causal factors. Otherwise, the comparative study among different groups of elderly and development of nursing care guidelines for promoting sleep quality in the elderly should be studied.