The purpose of this study was to investigate the sleep quality of community elderly and the related influence factors. The cross-sectional method was utilized in this study. There were 116 subjects interviewed from the Tucheng city of Taipei county PSQI was used to measure sleep quality, The average PSQI global score of total subjects was 5.48±4.08, there were 38.8% subjects in poor sleep quality (PSQI>5), There was 25.8% subjects dissatisfied in self-perceived quality of sleep, There was 21.6% use the hypnotics to solve the insomnia in the past month. The symptoms interfering with sleep include nocturnal, pain, foot and hand splinter. The person with midday nap habit has better sleep quality. There was significant correlation among the number of chronic disease, the symptoms interfering with body, self-perceived health status, midday nap habit and sleep quality, and those variables could explain 39.4% variation of sleep quality. The self-perceived health status was the strongest predictor. The multivariate logistic regression analysis found the subjects suffer from>1 chronic disease, were more likely to have poor quality of sleep than the subjects with 0-1 chronic disease (OR, 2.93; 95% CI: 1.35-6.36). The subjects with the symptoms interfering with body were more likely to have poor quality of sleep (OR, 2.31; 95% CI: 1.06-4.96). The study finding can help health care personals to identify the poor sleep quality high-risk group and offer appropriate prevention and management to improve the life quality of community elderly.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the sleep quality of community elderly and the related influence factors. The cross-sectional method was utilized in this study. There were 116 subjects interviewed from the Tucheng city of Taipei county PSQI was used to measure sleep quality, The average PSQI global score of total subjects was 5.48±4.08, there were 38.8% subjects in poor sleep quality (PSQI>5), There was 25.8% subjects dissatisfied in self-perceived quality of sleep, There was 21.6% use the hypnotics to solve the insomnia in the past month. The symptoms interfering with sleep include nocturnal, pain, foot and hand splinter. The person with midday nap habit has better sleep quality. There was significant correlation among the number of chronic disease, the symptoms interfering with body, self-perceived health status, midday nap habit and sleep quality, and those variables could explain 39.4% variation of sleep quality. The self-perceived health status was the strongest predictor. The multivariate logistic regression analysis found the subjects suffer from>1 chronic disease, were more likely to have poor quality of sleep than the subjects with 0-1 chronic disease (OR, 2.93; 95% CI: 1.35-6.36). The subjects with the symptoms interfering with body were more likely to have poor quality of sleep (OR, 2.31; 95% CI: 1.06-4.96). The study finding can help health care personals to identify the poor sleep quality high-risk group and offer appropriate prevention and management to improve the life quality of community elderly.