Effect of educational booklet on sleep quality of the elderly

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• Conditions: Old man. Sleep. Nursing care. Educational technology. Geriatric Nursing. Comprehensive Health Care. Sleep Apnea, Obstructive. Nursing. Multimedia; N04.590.233; C08.618.085.852.850; Q65.030; J01.897.280.500.633; H02.478.676.236

• Registration Number: RBR-993xf7
• Lead Sponsor: niversidade Federal do Piauí

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2020-09-25
• Last Update Posted: 29 May 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Data analysis completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

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

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: Intervention
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Expected outcome 1<br>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<br>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 Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Secondary outcomes are not expected;Secondary outcomes are not expected