Abstract
Aim: The purpose of the present study was to identify the sleep quality, depression, and life satisfaction between nursing home and long-term care hospital residents. Methods: Data was collected through a structured questionnaire survey of 61 nursing home residents and 74 long-term care hospital residents. Descriptive statistics, t-test, χ2-test, anova, Pearson's correlation were used to analyze the data. Results: The residents living in a nursing home showed higher subjective health status and sleep quality than long-term care hospital residents. Depression did not show a significant difference between them. However, there was a significant difference in depression score by subjective health status. Sleep quality and depression showed a significant negative correlation for both residents. In terms of depression and life satisfaction, nursing home residents showed a significant negative correlation, and long-term care hospital residents showed a significant positive correlation. Conclusions: These results show that environmental management is essential to enhance sleep quality, thus depression and subjective health status will be improved. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2017; 17: 142–149.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 142-149 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Geriatrics and Gerontology International |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 Japan Geriatrics Society
Keywords
- depression
- life satisfaction
- nursing home
- older adults
- quality of sleep