The aim of this study was to explore sleep problems among hong kong seniors by examining the prevalence of poor sleep quality. Definition of sleep from a behavioral standpoint, sleep is a state of decreased awareness of environmental stimuli that is distinguished from states such as coma or hibernation by its relatively rapid reversibility. While poor sleep quality is a key feature of insomnia, there are few empirical investigations of sleep quality in insomnia patients. Mean sleep quality and quantity were compared between hospital and home using mixed linear models with the patients difference scores hospital relative to home as the dependent variable, with an interceptonly model for the fixed part and a random effect of hospital. Although various questionnaires have been used to assess sleep quality, few. Is there a clear definition for sleep quality or at least. The national sleep foundations guidelines on sleep duration, and now quality, make sense of it all providing consumers with the resources needed to understand their sleep. So how can you tell if youre getting the most out of your sleep. Sleep contrasts with wakefulness, in which state there is an enhanced potential for sensitivity and an efficient responsiveness to external stimuli. In order to do so, it was necessary to choose a definition of sleep quality as a basis for discussion. Despite growing support for the idea that adequate sleep, like adequate nutrition and physical activity, is vital to our wellbeing, people are sleeping less. Measurement of sleep quality is difficult due to its imprecise definition. Studies show that not getting enough sleep or getting poor quality sleep on a regular basis increases the risk of having high blood pressure, heart disease, and other medical conditions. Physical activity and sleep quality in students of the faculty.
Without sleep you cant form or maintain the pathways in your brain that let you learn and create new memories, and its harder to concentrate and respond quickly. As noted above, sws correlates with overall sleep quality 36,37 in some studies, although it may dissociate from subjective sleep quality reports in studies comparing younger and older adults. Even if a cocktail seems to help you fall asleep, it can interfere with sleep quality and disrupt sleep later in the night. Aeg live, the definition of quality sleep may also be. In other words, how well rested you are and how well. Good quality sleep is likely to be the result of spending enough time in all of the stages, including enough deep sleep. Strategies for improving sleep health in nurses by. To raise awaeness among university students and about the concept of sleep quality and the factors affecting the sleep quality and to increase the quality of sleep quality. Feeling energetic and fit after sleeping is descriped as the sleep quality.
Sleep quality glycine why it is an unproven option studies on glycine havent found supplementation to improve sleep quality or reduce the amount of time it takes to fall asleep, but people supplementing glycine do report feeling significantly more rested the following morning. Accordingly, our aim was to investigate the subjective meaning of sleep quality among individuals with insomnia and normal sleepers. Pdf sleep is an important part of the human daily routine. As the factors that influence sleep quality and their relative importance vary among individuals, a self. Consensus other specificoutcome indicators for sleep generally include measures of wake time after sleep onset waso, sleep onset latency sol, number of awakenings, sleep time or sleep efficiency,formation of a positive and clear. Unobtrusive sleep quality monitoring using smartphones tian hao michigan state university guoliang xing michigan state university gang zhou college of william and mary abstract the quality of sleep is an important factor in maintaining a healthy life style. Sep 27, 2017 additionally, students who do not smoke, sleeps 67 hours per day and consuming beverages with caffeine less have a better quality of sleep.
Sleep disorders definition sleep disorders are a group of syndromes characterized by disturbance in the patients amount of sleep, quality or timing of sleep, or in behaviors or physiological conditions associated with sleep. These stimulants can make it harder to fall asleep and stay asleep, especially if consumed late in the day. The nonstop 247 nature of the world today encourages longer or nighttime work hours and offers continual access to entertainment and other activities. Regarding the main results of the articles included in the ir, they identified that patients with recent ami had worse quality and quantity of sleep 11, 24, 32 and that a high angina score and length of stay in intensive care unit were predictors of poor sleep quality. A crosssectional survey of 9,714 randomly selected subjects was used to explore sleep quality obtained by selfreport, in relation to socioeconomic factors including poverty, employment status, and. Prevalence and impacts of poor sleep on quality of life. Sleep is a complex and dynamic process that affects how you function in ways scientists are now beginning to understand. While normal aging changes interfere with the quality of sleep, other disease conditions and medications used by older adults compromise sleep patterns. We have chosen to employ the simple likertstyle rating of the previous nights sleep quality, commonly included as an item on sleep diaries, as the core sleep quality indicator and focus of this article.
Sleep quality affects health and the overall quality of life. The following questions relate to your usual sleep habits during the past month only. In order to do so, it was necessary to choose a definition of. Objective sleep quality refers to how difficult it is for a person to fall asleep and remain in a sleeping state, and how many times they wake up during a single night. But sometimes, sleep quality can be more ambiguous. Associated factors of sleep quality and behavior among. Unobtrusive sleep quality monitoring using smartphones. Your guide to healthy sleep national heart, lung, and. Person correlations r define the relationships between pa and. Mar 01, 2008 good sleep quality is associated with a wide range of positive outcomes such as better health, less daytime sleepiness, greater wellbeing and better psychological functioning. Development of the sleep quality scale yi 2006 journal. I was comforted by the thought of the blissful nondreaming sleep of death but i could no longer believe in that. Friedman institute on aging and department of population health sciences, university of wisconsinmadison, madison, wisconsin.
Pdf sleep quality is poorly defined yet ubiquitously used by researchers, clinicians and patients. An extension of this approach involves correlating selfrated sleep quality against other measures such as environmental factors, the timing of. Sleep, which is directly related to health and quality of life, is a basic need for a human being to continue his biopsychosocial and cultural functions. Sleep disturbance is a complex health problem in ageing global populations decreasing quality of life among many older people. Contents lists available at sciencedirect sleep health. The pittsburgh sleep quality index psqi consultgeri. Attention should be directed to potential agents that could interfere with sleepfor example, excessive use of caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and certain classes of drugs. Developers hoped to create a scale that could be used as an allinclusive assessment tool a general, ef. And until now, there werent any real guidelines to define what, exactly, good sleep really is. Symptoms might include fatigue, impaired cognitive and physical abilities, and alterations in health status. Quality and quantity of sleep and factors associated with. Main causes of sleep disturbances on adults led by prof.
What are the best sensors for measuring sleep quality. Geographic, cultural, and ethnic differences in sleep patterns have been documented within and between western and asian populations. Not only does the quantity of your sleep matter, but the quality of your sleep is important as well. Perceived sleep quality and daytime sleepiness did not change over the course of the patients stays in the icu, nor were there any significant differences p. An extension of this approach involves correlating selfrated sleep quality against other measures such as environmental factors, the timing of sleep, physiologically derived indices, polysomno.
To date, technology has not enabled personalized, inplace sleep quality. In fact, sleep quality may be a better indicator of overall health, mood, and life satisfaction than sleep quantity. The results indicate that sleep quality is associated with ease of waking, tiredness, sense of balance and coordination, clearheadedness, how rested, restored. Perceived sleep quality can vary from person to person. Is there a clear definition for sleep quality or at least what is it consists of. In keeping with its mission of promoting high quality care, the aasm has developed sleep quality measures for assessment and management of common sleep disorders.
Restoring sleep is strongly related to a better physical, cognitive, and psychological. Sleep disorders definition of sleep disorders by medical. Determinants of perceived sleep quality in normal sleepers. Aasm sleep quality measures for sleep medicine specialists. It differentiates poor from good sleep by measuring seven domains. The aim of this study was to explore sleep problems among hong kong seniors by examining the prevalence of poor sleep quality, the.
Unlike sleep quantity, sleep quality refers to how well you sleep. Sleep is a more complex process than many people realise, much of it is still a mystery to scientists. Because sleep is critical for optimal health and wellbeing, the findings in this report highlight areas for further research and targeted health promotion. Sleep affects the quality of life and health,which is also perceived as an important variable2,3. A comparison of individuals with and without insomnia. The fatigue experienced by night shift workers can be dangerous. Development of the sleep quality scale hyeryeon yi1, kyungrim shin2 and chol shin1,3 1institute of human genomic study, college of medicine, korea university, seoul, 2college of nursing science, ewha womans university, seoul and 3division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, department of internal medicine, korea university ansan hospital, ansan, republic of. Given the precipitous increase in the use of sleep technology devices, the key findings are timely and relevant.
Who technical meeting on sleep and health whoeurope world. Prior to the launch of this technology, sleep quality measurements were difficult to determine and measure objectively. Prevalence and impacts of poor sleep on quality of life and. Sleep quality is poorly defined yet ubiquitously used by researchers, clinicians and patients. He is not an overly religious man and maintains that. Definition of sleep from a behavioral standpoint, sleep is a state of decreased awareness of. Third trimester months 7 to 9 the quality of sleep in the last trimester is worse than during the first two trimesters.
Your guide to healthy sleep home national heart, lung. Your answers should indicate the most accurate reply for the majority of days and nights in the past month. Whether its quality or quantity, most americans arent reaching the suggested guidelines for sleep. Jan 23, 2017 the national sleep foundations guidelines on sleep duration, and now quality, make sense of it all providing consumers with the resources needed to understand their sleep. Research on sleep quality and the factors affecting the sleep. Your guide to healthy sleep are at odds with powerful sleepregulating cues like sunlight, night shift workers often ind themselves drowsy at work, and they have dificulty falling or staying asleep during the daylight hours when their work schedules require them to sleep. Today more than 2,500 aasm accredited sleep disorders centers across the u. This study examines the relationship of raceethnicity, socioeconomic status ses and other factors upon sleep quality. Sleep disturbances are rather common and they reflect various somatic and psychic diseases. Sleep contrasts with wakefulness, in which state there is an enhanced potential for sensitivity. For adults, good quality sleep means that you typically fall asleep in 30 minutes or less, sleep soundly through the night with no more than one awakening, and drift back to sleep within 20 minutes if you do wake up. Poor sleep quality disrupts the cycle of transition between the different stages of sleep.
Conceptual and operational definitions of the defining. People whose sleep is frequently interrupted or cut short might not get enough of certain stages of sleep. Counting cycles of sleep, instead of hours in bed, might be a better way to judge the quality of sleep youre getting. Sleep, a normal, reversible, recurrent state of reduced responsiveness to external stimulation that is accompanied by complex and predictable changes in physiology. They also pointed out that during the hospitalization more than one third of the acs patients had insomnia. Associated factors of sleep quality and behavior among students of two tertiary institutions in northern malaysia med j malaysia vol 68 no 3 june 20 197 another study also found that insomnia and short sleep duration are associated with a wide range of. Little is known about the social determinants of sleep attainment.
On the flip side, bad sleep quality is the kind that leaves. People who chronically lack sleep are also more likely to become depressed. To qualify for the diagnosis of sleep disorder, the condition must be a persistent. Good quality sleep is likely to be the result of spending enough time.
Quality sleep and getting enough of it at the right times is as essential to survival as food and water. He is not an overly religious man and maintains that there is no after life, that death is a long sleep. Currently, there is no broadly accepted definition of perceived sleep quality. Sleep wake habits can be assessed with the aid of a sleep diary. Sleepquality questionnaire this sleepquality questionnairethe sleep condition indicatorwas developed by colin espie, professor of sleep medicine at the university of oxford and a cofounder of the sleepeducation app sleepio. Perceived icu sleep quality was significantly poorer than baseline sleep at home p 0. The 4 qualities that define good sleep, and how to achieve.
Jan 01, 2014 as noted above, sws correlates with overall sleep quality 36,37 in some studies, although it may dissociate from subjective sleep quality reports in studies comparing younger and older adults. Aug, 2019 research shows that a chronic lack of sleep, or getting poor quality sleep, increases the risk of disorders including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, and obesity. Although various questionnaires have been used to assess sleep quality, few all. Research on sleep quality and the factors affecting the.
New guideline american academy of sleep medicine aasm. The pittsburgh sleep quality index psqi is an effective instrument used to measure the quality and patterns of sleep in the older adult. Sleep quality is an essential clinical concept, as sleep complaints are common and poor sleep is often indicative of many sleep and medical disorders. Consider it a helpful, science backed tool to start a conversation with yourself, your family. Sleepwake habits can be assessed with the aid of a sleep diary.
During sleep, the body goes through a variety of processes and sleep stages. Lee, in principles and practice of sleep medicine fourth edition, 2005. Sleep duration changes with advancing age, but sleep duration and quality are also influenced by concurrent changes in womens reproductive hormone levels. Personal tips for a better nights sleep sleep%hygiene,avariety%of%practices%that%are%necessary%tohave% normal%quality%sleep,%is%essential%to%the%healthof%not%only%. Associated factors of sleep quality and behavior among students of two tertiary institutions in northern malaysia med j malaysia vol 68 no 3 june 20 197 another study also found that insomnia and short sleep duration are associated with a wide range of behavioural and emotional problems in adolescents18. In part, this phenomenon may explain why six hours of quality sleep in some individuals is sufficient while eight or nine hours of sleep for others is not. The national sleep foundation nsf recently released the key indicators of good sleep quality, as established by a panel of experts. The quality of sleep may be evaluated from an objective and a subjective point of view. Adults sleep physiology, sleep quality and indicators of disturbed sleep.
A nursing assessment of sleep begins with a comprehensive assessment of sleep quality and sleep patterns. Good sleep quality is associated with a wide range of positive outcomes such as better health, less daytime sleepiness, greater wellbeing and better psychological functioning. Sleep quality is a vital construct to clinicians and researchers due to the high prevalence of disturbed sleep and insomnia, and the clear relevance of sleep quality to optimal health and functioning. Metabolic syndrome, sleep duration, sleep quality, police officer.
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