BACKGROUND Insufficient sleep is a significant public health issue with adverse medical consequences. Sleep disturbances are common among university students and have an effect on this group's overall health and functioning. The aim of this study was to investigate sleep habits and disorders in a population of university students across Lebanon. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study carrie...

INTRODUCTION The progressive increase in the elderly population of developing countries has drawn attention to their health. Sleep Pattern and quality can affect life quality in old people. We need more documents about footbath (a non-invasive method). The purpose of this research was to examine footbath on sleep quality of the elderly. METHODS This study is a blinded, randomized, clinical tr...

PURPOSE To determine the influence of sleep deprivation on the occurrence of errors by registered nurses working in night shift in intensive care departments. METHODS The study utilized a multi-part questionnaire which included items about demographic characteristics, reported medical errors, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) 300 questionnaires were distributed to registered nurses wo...

Introduction It is well documented that on entering college, students experience a multitude of changes in sleep habits. Very few studies have been conducted that explore sleep quality in Indian undergraduate students; fewer still study the effects of burnout in the same population. Medical students, in particular, are believed to be more stressed, sleep deprived, and burnt out than their non-m...

background test anxiety is a special case of a general anxiety which is of particular importance in students, because students will be the future of the country and the society activists. on the other hand, sleep quality and sleep disorders, have correlation with ailments, poor performance, decreased quality of life and increase of associated costs; this study aimed to determine the quality of ...

patients and methods in this multicenter cross sectional study, 397 consecutive patients on hemodialysis were evaluated by face-to-face interviews. rls was diagnosed using the international rls study group (irlss) criteria. in addition, three validated sleep disorder questionnaires (insomnia severity index, epworth sleepiness scale and pittsburgh sleep quality index) were completed by the patie...

background & aim : quality of life refers to satisfaction or dissatisfaction with various important life domains. sleep disorder is one of the factors which can influence the quality of life. this study has been conducted in order to investigate the relation between quality of life and sleep quality in the kurdish elderly of saqqez county. methods & materials: this correlational study was condu...

OBJECTIVE The main purpose of this research was to crosscheck sleep quality in patients with psoriasis with that in healthy individuals and to evaluate a possible relationship between sleep quality and disease severity in these patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty-eight patients with plaque psoriasis and 58 age- and gender-matched healthy individuals were included. The Psoriasis Area and Sev...

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between occupation, sleep duration and sleep quality. METHODS The data for this study was extracted from data collected from the 2008 Chinese Sub-optimal Health Study. Our study sample consisted of 18,316 Chinese subjects aged 18-65. Occupation and other relevant characteristics to sleep were collected. We used the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) to...

background : there are a few studies to assess nurses’ sleep quality and sleepiness in the iranian context. this study thus was carried out to examine the prevalence of sleepiness and sleep quality among nurses in south east of iran.   subjects and methods : the study applied a descriptive, explorative design.252 nurses randomly selected from kerman university hospitals during winter 2009. usin...