Sleep Quality among Female Hospital Staff Nurses

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Purpose.

To investigate sleep quality of hospital staff nurses, both by subjective questionnaire and objective measures.

Methods.

Female staff nurses at a regional teaching hospital in Northern Taiwan were recruited.

The Chinese version of the pittsburgh sleep quality index (C-PSQI) was used to assess subjective sleep quality, and an electrocardiogram-based cardiopulmonary coupling (CPC) technique was used to analyze objective sleep stability.

Work stress was assessed using questionnaire on medical worker’s stress.

Results.

A total of 156 staff nurses completed the study.

Among the staff nurses, 75.8% (117) had a PSQI score of ≥5 and 39.8% had an inadequate stable sleep ratio on subjective measures.

Nurses with a high school or lower educational degree had a much higher risk of sleep disturbance when compared to nurses with a college or higher level degree.

Conclusions.

Both subjective and objective measures demonstrated that poor sleep quality is a common health problem among hospital staff nurses.

More studies are warranted on this important issue to discover possible factors and therefore to develop a systemic strategy to cope with the problem.