1Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Pacific Institute of Medical Sciences, Umarda, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Pacific Institute of Medical Sciences, Umarda, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
3Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Puducherry
4Assisstant Professor cum Statistician, Department of Community Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Puducherry
*Corresponding author: Dr. Matariswa Samanta, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Pacific Institute of Medical Sciences, Umarda, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, E-mail: mailmatriswa23@hotmail.com
Online published on 1 November, 2018.
Sleep-related disorders considered are an unmet public health problem. Limited population based studies have been conducted in India. So, this study was undertaken to assess the quality of sleep and its associated factors among adults in an urban area of Puducherry.
A community based cross-sectional study was conducted among 409 individuals aged 20–60 years from Jan 2014 to April 2015 in urban field practice area of Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry. Multistage sampling was used to select the subjects. A Pretested, Semi structured questionnaire in local language (Tamil) was administered. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to assess the sleep quality. Socio-demographic and other information related to smoking, alcohol, tea consumption, milk consumption before sleeping, physical exercise, any chronic illness was collected from the participants. Percentages, mean and odds ratio were used in analysis.
Majority of study subjects were females (70.2%), The mean age of the participants was 40.8 ± 11.3 years. Prevalence of bad sleep quality (PSQI ≥5) was 47.6%. Widowed, divorced and separated individuals had 3.3 times of getting bad sleep compared to unmarried individuals. Sleep quality was significantly associated with age, hypertension and diabetes.
In this study, the prevalence of bad sleep quality was high. Widows, divorced and separated individuals were at higher risk for sleep disturbances. The hypertensive & diabetic individual had more sleep related problems than normal individual.
Sleep quality, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Public health Problem
