Sleep-related disorders and quality of life among post-menopausal Egyptian women in Ismailia

Abstract EN

Aim : To determine the prevalence of poor sleep quality among postmenopausal women and its impact on their quality of life.

Subjects and Method: After approval of our ethics committee, a to-tal 315 postmenopausal women aged 45-60 were recruited and investigated using an interview questionnaire.

The questionnaire contains three main items: Socidemographic data, assessment of sleep quality using an Arabic translated version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and Arabic version of the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 Survey (SF-36).

Results: 69.5% of the participants had poor sleep quality.

Poor sleepers have higher prevalence of sedentary life-style, poor sleep quality of spouse, and increased caffeine intake.

Bivariate analysis did not show any significant difference between poor and good sleepers regarding age, BMI, residence, occu-pational status, educational level and socioeconomic status.

Sedentary lifestyle was found to be a significant predictor of poor sleep quality.

All SF-36 domain scores were significantly lower among poor sleepers.

Conclusion: Poor sleep quality is a high prevalent problem among post-menopausal women and it affects health-related quality of life of these women.

A lot of modifia-ble risk factors were previously found to affect sleep quality, but we have found that only seden-tary lifestyle is the only modifiable risk factor that significantly affects sleep quality.