Old man. Sleep. Nursing care. Educational technology. Geriatric Nursing. Comprehensive Health Care. Sleep Apnea, Obstructive. Nursing. Multimedia
Conditions
Interventions
In group 1, educational intervention was carried out using printed technology (booklet type) with step by step sleep hygiene. The 24-page booklet contained illustrations teaching the elderly to sleep.
Behavioural
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Sponsors
Universidade Federal do Piauí
Universidade Federal do Piauí
Eligibility
Age
60 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Being 60 years old or older, living in the urban area, being assisted by the FHS, having good cognitive status, according to the Mini Mental State Examination, according to schooling criteria and sleep quality index greater than or equal to five points on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index PSQI (which corresponds to poor sleep quality or presence of sleep disorder).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: present auditory, visual or speech problems, which prevented the application of the instruments; plan to move to another city, have a surgical procedure scheduled, have a medical diagnosis regarding some type of mental illness and anxiety disorder (to obtain information about this criterion, there was questioning the CHWs and triangulation of data, by checking the medical records of the elderly, in the health unit); identification of risk for depression (obtained from the application of the geriatric depression scale); use antidepressant, sedative and psychotropic medications in general, in addition to chronic use of alcohol, cocaine, crack and amphetamines, for directly interfering in the outcome variable
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Expected outcome 1 Improvement in the quality of sleep in group 1 that used educational technology (primer on sleep hygiene), during health education. Verified by the parameters of the sleep quality index from the observation of a variation of at least 5% in the pre measurements and post-intervention, due to the level of significance adopted.;Outcome found 1 Improvement of the parameters minutes to sleep (reduction of 40 minutes), sleep efficiency (83.87%), self-classification of sleep (80.64%), waking up in the middle of the night (61.29%), worry as a cause of loss sleep (59.67%) and waking up at night to go to the bathroom (51.61%) adopted for all parameters (p <0.001). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary outcomes are not expected;Secondary outcomes are not expected | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactKhelyane Carvalho
Universidade Federal do Piauí
Outcome results
None listed