Sleep Hygiene Education: Efficacy on Sleep Quality in Working Women

職業婦女的睡眠衛教成效探討

陳寶惠(Pao-Hui Chen) ； 郭虹佑(Hung-Yu Kuo) ； 闕可欣(Ke-Hsin Chueh)

《The Journal of Nursing Research》 18卷4期 (2010/12) Pp. 283-289

https://doi.org/10.1097/JNR.0b013e3181fbe3fd

摘要

Background: Although sleep hygiene education represents a promising approach for patients with poor sleep quality, little research has been devoted in understanding the sleep hygiene behavior and knowledge of working women.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a short-term sleep hygiene education program on working women with poor sleep quality.
Methods: This pilot study was a prospective and an exploratory intervention study. The intervention was tested on 37 selected working women with poor sleep quality in the community. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (score ＞ 5) was used to identify working women with poor sleep quality. After a pretest to assess sleep quality, researchers implemented a 5-week sleep hygiene education program that addressed good sleep environments/habits, emotional stress, the influence of diet/ alcohol/tobacco on sleep, exercise, and alternative therapies. Tests administered midway through the program and after program completion provided the data used to analyze effective sleep quality changes.
Results: Results showed sleep hygiene education to improve participant sleep quality significantly (p＜.001). The sleep quality of all participants improved over both the 3-and the 5-week education program. The six components of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (i.e., subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication, and daytime dysfunction) also improved.
Conclusion/Implications for Practice: A brief and effective sleep hygiene education program delivered by a nurse can improve sleep quality in working women with sleeping problems.

關鍵字

睡眠衛生 ； 職業婦女 ； 睡眠品質 ； 匹茲堡睡眠品質量表PSQI

並列摘要

Background: Although sleep hygiene education represents a promising approach for patients with poor sleep quality, little research has been devoted in understanding the sleep hygiene behavior and knowledge of working women.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a short-term sleep hygiene education program on working women with poor sleep quality.
Methods: This pilot study was a prospective and an exploratory intervention study. The intervention was tested on 37 selected working women with poor sleep quality in the community. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (score ＞ 5) was used to identify working women with poor sleep quality. After a pretest to assess sleep quality, researchers implemented a 5-week sleep hygiene education program that addressed good sleep environments/habits, emotional stress, the influence of diet/ alcohol/tobacco on sleep, exercise, and alternative therapies. Tests administered midway through the program and after program completion provided the data used to analyze effective sleep quality changes.
Results: Results showed sleep hygiene education to improve participant sleep quality significantly (p＜.001). The sleep quality of all participants improved over both the 3-and the 5-week education program. The six components of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (i.e., subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication, and daytime dysfunction) also improved.
Conclusion/Implications for Practice: A brief and effective sleep hygiene education program delivered by a nurse can improve sleep quality in working women with sleeping problems.

並列關鍵字

sleep hygiene ； working women ； sleep quality ； Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index PSQI

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