1Faculty of Nursery, Universitas Airlangga, 60115, Surabaya, Jawa Timur
*Corresponding Author: Harmayetty, Faculty of Nursery, Universitas Airlangga, 60115, Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Email: Harmayetty123@gmail.com
Online published on 13 November, 2019.
A decrease in sleep quality has been an issue lately which occurs in geriatric patient, including early elderly group. One way to improve sleep quality in elderly is by afternoon sunbath.
To explain the effectiveness of afternoon sunbath in improving sleep quality in elderly.
This was a quasy experimental study with pre and post intervention. The respondents were divided into two groups (control & intervention). Data was collected using the PSQI (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) questionnaire and analyzed using the Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test and Mann Whitney test with a significant level of α ≤ 0.05.
The results showed that afternoon sunbath significantly improve sleep quality in elderly where p value = 0.000
The afternoon sunbath treatment increases serotonin and endorphin hormones, which improved the sleep quality in the elderly.
Elderly sleep disorders, afternoon sunbath, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
