Sleep Quality among Female Hospital Staff Nurses

Joint Authors

Chien, Pei-Li
Jou, Hei-Jen
Siao, Ruo-Yan
Su, Hui-Fang
Hsieh, Pi-Ching
Ling, Pei-Ying

Source

Sleep Disorders

Issue

Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-6, 6 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2013-05-13

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

6

Main Subjects

Diseases

Abstract EN

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.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Chien, Pei-Li& Su, Hui-Fang& Hsieh, Pi-Ching& Siao, Ruo-Yan& Ling, Pei-Ying& Jou, Hei-Jen. 2013. Sleep Quality among Female Hospital Staff Nurses. Sleep Disorders،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-6.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)

Chien, Pei-Li…[et al.]. Sleep Quality among Female Hospital Staff Nurses. Sleep Disorders No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-6.
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American Medical Association (AMA)

Chien, Pei-Li& Su, Hui-Fang& Hsieh, Pi-Ching& Siao, Ruo-Yan& Ling, Pei-Ying& Jou, Hei-Jen. Sleep Quality among Female Hospital Staff Nurses. Sleep Disorders. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-460191

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-460191