Effectiveness of Implementing Sleep Hygiene Guidelines on Daily Living Activities for Anterior Knee Cruciate Ligaments Reconstruction Patients

Abstract

Back ground: Sleep hygiene is the term that are used to describe good sleep habits. Sleep is defined as a set of behaviors that impact sleep quality and duration. Aim: This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing sleep hygiene guidelines on daily living activities for anterior cruciate ligaments reconstruction patients. Subjects and methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted in at orthopedic departments of Tanta Universal Teaching Hospital and Orthopedic Outpatient Clinic for follow up.The convenience sampling of (60) adult post-operative anterior cruciate ligaments reconstruction patients was included in the study and randomly divided into two groups. Group 1: (control group) Consists of (30) patient who received the usual hospital routine of care. Group 2: (study group) Consists of (30) patient who received the application of sleep hygiene guidelines. Three tools were being used as follow. Tool (I) Structured Interview Schedule. Tool (II)): Sleep Hygiene Index Tool (III)): Knee Outcome Survey-Activities of Daily living scale. Results:The main results revealed that the majority of the studied patients in study group were developed their sleeping habits 80% while among control group was 10% at the 2 nd week of the operation. Conclusions and recommendations: sleep hygiene guidelines program has a favorable effect on the activity of daily living among patients with anterior cruciate ligaments reconstruction, : In addition to the patients' ability to perform this activity improved. It's recommended to provide clear instruction to patients about behavior change to provide a foundation for improvement of sleep hygiene.