Factors that interferes with sleep in elderly students from Maturity's University in the city of Palmas (TO)

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Núbia Kênia Carneiro
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Maria Liz Cunha de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Kairós (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/kairos/article/view/25094
• topic: Elderly; Sleep; Sleep disorders; Nursing.; Idoso; Sono; Distúrbios relacionados ao sono.

The senescence's process entails changes in the amount and quality of sleep, therefore most elderly have sleep-related complaints arising from specific physiological changes due to the aging process which can cause sleep-related disorders. Purpose: to identify the factors which affect the sleep of elderlies, students from the Maturity's University. Method: this is a descriptive survey of cross-sectional and quantitative's nature, the following instruments were used for data collecting: socio-economic survey questionnaire followed by the Epworth Sleepness Scale (ESS) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The ESS results revealed that 75% of the male group and 51.85% of the female group presented normal excessive daytime sleepness with <10 scores. Whilst the PSQI open answers related to the bed time revealed that 43.75% of men would lay at between 11 pm and 0 am, while 29.63% of women would lay at between 9 pm and 10 pm. In relation to the time to fall asleep, 68.75% of men and 62.96% of women took ≤ 15 minutes; in relation to the wake up time, 75% of men and 37.04% of women wake up at between 6 and 7 am; in relation to the sleep time, 50% of men slept between 7 and 8 hours a night and 51.85% of women slept ≥ 8 hours a night. Whilst the global PSQI revealed that 56.25% of men have a good sleep quality  and that 66.67% of women presented bad sleep quality, although they have a bigger efficiency related to the sleep. The results showed that men had a good sleep quality and women had a bad sleep quality.