A study on assessment of sleep quality amongst patients attending a rural hospital in Kancheepuram, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract

Background: Sleep is the state, in which the organism temporarily, partially and periodically loses its interaction with surroundings at different intensities and which can be reversed with stimuli. Sleep deficiency in sleep is linked with many physical ailments. The present study was aimed at assessing the sleep quality of patients attending the outpatient department of a rural health centre in Kacheepuram, Tamilnadu.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted amongst patients attending the OPD of rural health center of a Medical College Hospital at Kancheepuram. A pretested semi structured questionnaire based on Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) was used to collect data. Data were entered on and analyzed using Microsoft excel spread sheet.Results: Of the 150 participants who participated in the study 87 (58%) were males and 63 (42%) were females. In the present study there were 80 participants (53.3%) under the age of 40 years and 70 participants (46.7%) over the age of 40 years. Of the 150 participants 85.3% of them had a sleeping time <8 hrs a day and a minority of them 14.7% had a sleeping time of >8 hrs a day. The sleep quality of females was slightly better (54%) when compared to males. It was also observed that only 10 (9.7%) of the skilled workers had good quality of sleep when compared to unskilled workers.Conclusions: Our present study shows, the prevalence of poor-quality sleep was 31.3%. Various factors like gender, occupation and education were found to positively associated with poor quality sleep.

Descriptive analysis of sleep quality and its determinants among rural population of coastal Karnataka

“…This observation is consistent with the findings of other studies done from India as well as China and Nigeria. (12,13,16,18) Our study observed that high BMI was not significantly associated with poor sleep which is similar to findings of Luo J et al from China. ( 16) However, studies by Shittu RO et al found that higher BMI was associated with poor sleep.…”

“…While our study findings showed that quality of sleep was not associated with any sociodemographic characteristics, several studies have shown that factors such as advancing age, female gender and being widowed to be associated with poor quality of sleep. (11)(12)(13)(15)(16)(17) Due to similar distribution of these background characteristics among the people with good and poor sleep, no difference was observed with respect to these parameters in our study.…”

“…The prevalence of poor quality of sleep reported from India ranged from 6.2%-72.6% while in international studies it ranged from 21% to 44%. (4,(11)(12)(13)(14) This difference observed may be due to inclusion of population with varying characteristics like healthy population, elderly, patients with morbidity and working pattern of participants. While our study findings showed that quality of sleep was not associated with any sociodemographic characteristics, several studies have shown that factors such as advancing age, female gender and being widowed to be associated with poor quality of sleep.…”

Sleep Quality in the Indian Adult Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…1% of the participants were found to have poor sleep quality (PSQI score >5). In contrast, studies conducted in ordinary times showed only 20.4%, and 31.3% of the general population had poor sleep quality [ 24 - 25 ]. Following the trends of the PSQI scores through time showed that sleep quality was the worst during the second phase of the lockdown in India with an average PSQI score of 7.15.…”