시설노인과 재가노인의 수면습관 및 수면장애 비교

A Comparison on Sleep habits and Sleep disorder between Institutionalized Elderly and Community dwelling Elderly

Purpose: This study was conducted to compare sleep habits and sleep disorder between institutionalized elderly and community dwelling elderly in G city. Method: The subjects of this study consisted of 278 Korean elderly over 65 years. The data was analyzed by the SPSS(ver.12.0) computer program, and it included descriptive statistics, χ2-test, and t-test. Result: 1) The institutionalized elderly had significantly higher score in Time to fall a sleep’ than community dwelling elderly. There was statistically significant differences in ‘Bedtime’(p=.000), ‘Time to fall a sleep’(p=.000), ‘Awaken time’(p=.014), and ‘Level of daytime sleepiness’(p=.012) between institutionalized elderly and community dwelling elderly. 2) Both of them in evaluation of sleep disorder ware belong to sleep disorder group at a high rate. There was statistically significant differences in ‘ Trouble falling asleep’(p=.003), and Number of trouble falling a sleep (p=.004) between institutionalized elderly and community dwelling elderly. Conclusion: This study showed that development of sleep intervention program according to living form need to settle sleep problems in nursing care setting for elderly.