Exploring Quality of Sleep and Its Related Factors among Menopausal Women

更年期婦女睡眠品質及其相關因素之探討

徐秀琹(Hsiu-Chin Hsu) ； 林梅香(Mei-Hsiang Lin)

《The Journal of Nursing Research》 13卷2期 (2005/06) Pp. 153-164

摘要

Sleep, a basic physiological need of all humans, appears to be both integrative and restorative. However, studies have reported that 33-51% of women show a dramatic increase in sleep disturbance in the mid-life years, a time when they enter menopause. The purposes of this study were to (1) explore the prevalence of poor sleep quality in menopausal women; (2) identify the relationship between sleep quality of menopausal women and its related factors; (3) predict the possible explanations of how the related variables affect sleep quality of menopausal women; and (4) provide recommendations for future strategies that aim to improve sleep quality of menopausal women. A cross-sectional, correlation coefficient design was used. Purposive sampling was employed to recruit 197 menopause women from a small town in central Taiwan. T-test, one-way ANOVA, and multiple regression were used for data analysis. The results were as follows: (1) overall, the total score for sleep quality was 5.55±3.47; 57.9% of subjects were identified as good sleepers and 42.1% as poor sleepers; (2) there were significant differences in quality of sleep related to occupational situation, history of chronic disease, menopausal status, number of chronic diseases, and number of menopausal symptoms (t=-3.49, -3.37, p＜.01; F=3.62, p＜.05, F=4.95, 5.35, p＜.01); (3) depression and aging were strongly related to quality of sleep (r=.57; .22, p＜.01); (4) 36% of variance in quality of sleep can be explained by depression and aging.

關鍵字

睡眠品質 ； 更年期婦女

並列摘要

Sleep, a basic physiological need of all humans, appears to be both integrative and restorative. However, studies have reported that 33-51% of women show a dramatic increase in sleep disturbance in the mid-life years, a time when they enter menopause. The purposes of this study were to (1) explore the prevalence of poor sleep quality in menopausal women; (2) identify the relationship between sleep quality of menopausal women and its related factors; (3) predict the possible explanations of how the related variables affect sleep quality of menopausal women; and (4) provide recommendations for future strategies that aim to improve sleep quality of menopausal women. A cross-sectional, correlation coefficient design was used. Purposive sampling was employed to recruit 197 menopause women from a small town in central Taiwan. T-test, one-way ANOVA, and multiple regression were used for data analysis. The results were as follows: (1) overall, the total score for sleep quality was 5.55±3.47; 57.9% of subjects were identified as good sleepers and 42.1% as poor sleepers; (2) there were significant differences in quality of sleep related to occupational situation, history of chronic disease, menopausal status, number of chronic diseases, and number of menopausal symptoms (t=-3.49, -3.37, p＜.01; F=3.62, p＜.05, F=4.95, 5.35, p＜.01); (3) depression and aging were strongly related to quality of sleep (r=.57; .22, p＜.01); (4) 36% of variance in quality of sleep can be explained by depression and aging.

並列關鍵字

quality of sleep ； menopausal women

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