The Effect of Sleep Hygiene on The Sleep Quality in Elderly

DOI

10.2991/inc-17.2017.26How to use a DOI?

Keywords

elderly, sleep, sleep hygiene, and sleep quality

Abstract

Most elderly has decreasing quality of sleep. Sleep patterns of elderly are different from children and adults, the need of the elderly to sleep is 5-7 hours / day. Elderly often awakened in the middle of the night because of physical changes due to age and disease patterns, sleep quality significantly decreases. A good sleep hygiene behavior is assumed can conduct a well sleep. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of sleep hygiene on sleep quality in elderly. This study used quasi experiment with pre-test and post-test with control group. The research sample consisted of 14 respondents using purposive sampling technique. The statistical test used was simple linear regression to test the hypothesis and paired t-test, to analyze the difference average between the two paired samples (pre and post test). Sleep hygiene has a significant effect on the sleep quality in elderly. It had p value 0.023 <0.05 with F-count> F-table (6.827> 4.45). Correlation of pre-test and post-test was 0.078. Sleep hygiene has an influence on the effect of sleep quality for the elderly.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fitriana Kurniasari Solikhah
AU  - Nursalam Nursalam
AU  - Elida Ulfiana
PY  - 2017/04
DA  - 2017/04
TI  - The Effect of Sleep Hygiene on The Sleep Quality in Elderly
BT  - Proceedings of the 8th International Nursing Conference on Education, Practice and Research Development in Nursing (INC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 101
EP  - 103
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/inc-17.2017.26
DO  - 10.2991/inc-17.2017.26
ID  - KurniasariSolikhah2017/04
ER  -