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Multi-Modal Home Sleep Monitoring in Older Adults
Published on: January 26, 2019
Integrated group program for improving sleep quality of elderly people
1Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. petrus@hkbu.edu.hk
Abstract:
This article reports an exploratory study on the effects of an integrated group program for improving the sleep quality of elderly people in Hong Kong. Elderly people aged over 55 who had obtained a Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score > 5 were recruited as subjects of the study. While 19 subjects of the treatment group were taking part in an integrated group program involving social group work intervention as well as Chinese medicine therapeutics, 9 subjects of comparison group received no intervention. Using a pretest and posttest design, the study revealed positive effects of the integrated group program. It has added knowledge serving the development of interventions that can help to improve the sleep quality of elderly people.
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