A Study to Assess Effect of sleep hygiene education on Quality of Sleep among Hemodialysis patients at tertiary care hospital, Karad.

Mr. Samir K. Choudhari; Mrs. Manisha C. Gholap; Mr. Ajit Anandrao Pawar

Volume : IX, Issue : VI, June - 2019

A Study to Assess Effect of sleep hygiene education on Quality of Sleep among Hemodialysis patients at tertiary care hospital, Karad.

Mr. Samir K. Choudhari, Mrs. Manisha C. Gholap, Mr. Ajit Anandrao Pawar

Abstract :

This research aimed to determine the effect of sleep hygiene education on Quality of Sleep among Hemodialysis patients. One group pretest posttest design was used to conduct the study among hemodialysis patients and totally 40 patients was selected by purposive sampling technique. The study was conducted at Dialysis Center, Krishna hospital, Karad. Quality of Sleep was measured before and after the intervention by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The collected data were studied and analyzed in terms of objectives of the study using descriptive and inferential statistics. The mean difference between the pre– and post–test quality of sleep score was 3.15. The t–test value was 8.929 and was found significant at p<0.001 level. Hence, result of the study reveals that sleep hygiene education improved the quality of sleep is among hemodialysis patients. The study concluded that the sleep hygiene education improves the quality of sleep among hemodialysis patients. Therefore, education, training and counselling should be developed to improve the patients‘ quality of sleep among hemodialysis patients