Effect of Sleep Hygiene Education on Sleep Quality in Hemodialysis Patients

Sleep is referred a regular, recurring and easily
revocable state of organism which is characterized by relative
immobility and signifcant increase in response threshold to
environmental stimuli sleep disorders are common among
haemodialysis patients.
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of sleep
hygiene education on sleep quality in haemodialysis patients.
Materials and Methods: This study is a randomized controlled
clinical trial. The participants of this study were 60 haemodialysis
patients admitted to the Dialysis Center of Shahid Ayatollah
Madani Hospital of Khoy, affliated with the Urmia University
of Medical Sciences. Sampling was done randomly and the
partcipants were randomly divided into intervention group
(30 patients) and control group (30 patients). Sleep quality of
participants was measured before and after the intervention by
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Training process for sleep
hygiene behaviours was presented to the participants face-toface. The data were analysed using SPSS 16.
results: A signifcant difference in the mean (standard
deviation) score for PSQI (p<0.001) was observed before and
after intervention in the intervention group, while in the control
group, the difference was not signifcant (p=0.704), In addition,
a signifcant difference was observed in the mean (standard
deviation) score for PSQI between the two intervention and
control groups after the educational intervention (p=0.034).
conclusion: Sleep hygiene education, alongside other approaches, is a low-cost, accessible, and practical method which
can be implemented within a short period of time