중환자실 입원환자의 수면의 질 향상을 위한 간호중재 효과

The Effect of Sleep Improvement Intervention on the Patients Sleep Quality in the Intensive Care Unit

Purpose: This study was examined the effect of nursing intervention on the patient s perception of sleep quality and sleep disrupting factors in the intensive care unit. Methods: A non-equivalent control group pre-post test quasi-experimental design was used. This study was conducted in the intensive care unit of C university hospital in Gwangju city. The subjects were divided into two groups, 21 for control and 29 for experimental group. THe subject s sleep quality and sleep disrupting factors were measured using a questionnaire. The data were analysed by Mann-Whitney U test & Wilcoxon signed rank test using SPSS/Win 12.0 program. Results: This study showed that the mean scores of the sleep disrupting factors were not different significantly between two groups. However, the variations of the scores of sleep quality over times for the experimental group were higher than those of control group. Conclusion: The results suggest that sleep improvement nursing intervention methods can be utilized as an effective nursing strategies to improve the sleep quality of adult inpatients in intensive care unit.