Comparison of Sleep Quality in Active and Non-Active Military Retirement and its Relationship with Mental Health

Background and Aim: Even though aging is a natural process but many effective factors such as life style, rest and sleep pattern, stresses and confronting them can affect this process. Identifying the effective factors is necessary for improving retirement quality of life. The purpose of this study was to compare quality of sleep of sleep quality in active and non-active military retirement and its relationship with mental health. Methods: This is a descriptive - correlational study that 80 military retirement (40 active retirement and 40 non active retirement) aged 65 - 70 years, availability selected as statistical sample. In order to collect data needed to assess their sleep quality index of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire (PSQI) and also of mental health, Goldber & healer (GHQ-28) questionnaire were used. In order to compare the mean of the two groups, T-test descriptive statistics and deductive statistics, is used; Also, Stepwise Regression test were used to predict the contribution of sleep quality components to mental health of retirees. Results: The results showed that active military retirement had better scores in sleep quality and mental health than non-active military retirement (P<0.05). Also the result of step wise regression showed that none of the components of sleep quality couldn’t predict mental health in active and non-active military retirement. Conclusion: According to the results of the research, there is a significant difference between active and non-active military retirement. According to the findings of this research and other related researches it can be concluded that doing public sports has a positive and significant effect on military retirement Quality of Sleep and mental health.