Volume 24, Issue 101, January - February, 2020

Sleep quality among adults and older adult who lives in Residential Care Center - RCC

Aseel T. Suqati^1♦, Mohammed Basheikh², Siraj Wali², Salma Sit², Abdulrahman A. Alomari¹, Raed A. Alharbi³, Murad A. Yasawy ⁴

¹Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
²King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
³Faculty of Medicine, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
⁴Faculty of Medicine, Ibn Sina National College, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Email: aseelsuqati@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Background/objectives: Sleep is an essential neurophysiological process; it integrates health of all parts of the body and restores physiological and psychological functions. There are multi physiological processes affected by sleep as protein synthesis, hormonal release. The studies among older adult in Jeddah Saudi Arabia relatively rare, and most of them did not use PSQI (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index). In this study we assess the quality of sleep on adults and older adults here on Residential care centers (RCCs). Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among all adults and older adult live at RHCC in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from June to July 2018 by using PSQI (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index). Results: 68.89% of older age has Poor Sleep Quality. Our participants are 259, Female were more than male, the mean of age for our sample are 48.59. We found an obvious statistical significant relation between sleep quality and (Migraine, DM, anxiety and depression, smoking, pain killer using) P=0.087, P=0.003, P=0.000261, P=0.049, P=0.022 respectively. Conclusion: By the end of our study, most of older adult in RHCC has poor sleep quality due to several factors, and this study will recommend having more attention toward RCCs participants and more acceptability to visit primary health care.

Keywords: Sleep, Residential care center, older adult

Medical Science, 2020, 24(101), 421-428

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