1Lecturer, Mental Health Nursing Department, Naincy College of Nursing, Nainital, Uttarakhand
2Assistant Professor, Mental Health Nursing Department, Himalayan College of Nursing, Dehradun, India
3Senior Nursing Tutor, Mental Health Nursing Department, Himalayan College of Nursing, Dehradun, India
Online published on 8 September, 2016.
This study aimed at comparing sleep quality of shift and non-shift working staff nurses. Also the association between quality of sleep of both groups was determined with their selected demographic variables.
Here, Quantitative approach with Non experimental, exploratory, cross sectional study design’ was used. 100 staff nurses (50 shift nurses and 50 non shift nurses) were selected through Simple random sampling technique from selected hospital of Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Sleep quality was measured using Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Baseline data.
Data revealed that, there was no statistically significant difference between sleep quality of shift and non shift nurses. There was no statistical significant association between demographic variables of nurses and quality of sleep of nurses.
Quality of sleep, Shift working staff nurses, Non Shift working staff nurses
