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Home > Vol 35, No 3 (2017) > Aunjitsakul

Sleep Quality Among Elderly People Within the Outpatient Department of Songklanagarind Hospital, Thailand: A Cross-Sectional Study

Warut Aunjitsakul, Jarurin Pitanupong, Nisan Werachattawan, Kanthee Anantapong

Abstract

Objective: To determine the prevalence of sleep quality in the elderly within our outpatient department.
Material and Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted by; calculating the sample size for a survey with ‘proportion to size’ at the outpatient department of Songklanagarind Hospital from; October to November, 2015. A total of 408 participants aged between 65 and 99 were interviewed. Demographic and sleep-related data were collected. Sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) – Thai version. The results were analyzed in terms of descriptive statistics and conducted using R-Epicalc and R-Survey software.
Results: Our subjects were predominantly married females. The proportion of those in the 65-74 age range was 63.0%.
Most of the participants (70.8%) were poor sleepers, with mean and median PSQI scores of 7.7 and 7.0, respectively.
Regarding poor sleepers, their problems were; short sleep duration (99.7%), poor sleep efficiency (61.6%) and day
time dysfunction (51.6%).
Conclusion: Similarly to previous studies, our findings showed a high prevalence of poor sleep quality in the elderly
population. A sleep duration of less than 6 hours was the major problem in the poor sleeper group. Gaining a better
insight into sleep quality correlating with comorbidities is recommended.

 Keywords

elderly; outpatient; prevalence; sleep quality

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Warut Aunjitsakul
http://medinfo.psu.ac.th/smj2/smj.htm

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand.
Thailand

Jarurin Pitanupong
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand.
Thailand

Nisan Werachattawan
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand.
Thailand

Kanthee Anantapong
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90110, Thailand.
Thailand

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