| Abstract [eng] |
Author: Jurgita Janonytė Title: Evaluation of sleep quality of patients with stroke Work supervisor: doc. dr.Vita Danilevičiūtė Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine Institute of Rehabilitation, Sport’s medicine and Nursing One third of our life we spend sleeping. Furthermore, sleep is the condition, which is critically important for our physical, mental and emotional health. Today about half the people in the world are risking to confront or are confronting with sleep problems. Also, sleep disorders increase the affect of other illneses. 10 percent of adults and one in two of older aged people have sleep disorders or are ill with chronicle insomnia. It is important to have a suitable instrument to evaluate the quality of sleep in order to notice the changes in sleep quality and to correct them in time. The work purpose was to evaluate the sleep quality of patients with stroke in the area of Vilnius. To reach the purpose the main tasks were: 1. To find out the group’s of patients who had suffered a stroke time when they go to bed and wake up. Also, the time spent in bed and the sleeping time. 2. To find out the group’s of patients who had suffered a stroke soporific use and cheerfulness at daytime. 3. To calculate the Pitsburg‘s sleep quality index of group of patients who had suffered a stroke. 4. To evaluate how Pitsburg‘s sleep quality index depends on patients‘ age, illness manifesting time, education and living place. The object and methods of research: The research was carried out in october, 2007 – august, 2008 at the Rehabilitation, Sport’s medicine and Nursing Institute of Medicine Faculty in Vilnius University and at the Health Care Center in Vilnius. The questioning was based on adapted Pitsburg’s sleep quality index question feedback form. The research was based on random sample of cases of 200 people with stroke. All data was entered the computerized database and analyzed using „ Microsoft Excel for Windows 2003 “ and „SPSS 11.0 for Windows“. Conclusions: 1. Often patients who had suffered a stroke went to bed at 10pm in the evening and woke up at 7am in the morning. Also, they normaly slept 7 hours per night and the time usually spent in bed was 8 hours. 2. Soporifics were used in 7 out of 10 patients who had suffered a stroke,also 7 out of 10 patients found it difficult to be cheerfull in the daytime after having a stroke 3. The Pitsburg's sleep quality index was less than 5 in just a quarter of patients after suffering a stroke. Furthermore, the Pitsburg‘s sleep quality index was more than 5 in ¾ of patients after having a stroke. 4. The pitsburg's sleep quality index immediately concerned itself with the patients’ age and illness manifesting time.The Pitsburg's sleep quality conversely concerned itself with education. Living place did not have any influence over the Pitsburg's sleep quality index. |
