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Multi-Modal Home Sleep Monitoring in Older Adults
Published on: January 26, 2019
The effect of incontinence on sleep quality in the elderly
Gulay Dasdemir Ilkhan1, Hakan Celikhisar2
1Chest Diseases Department, Okmeydani Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Objective:
This study was conducted to determine the frequency of incontinence in elderly people living in nursing homes and the effect of incontinence on the quality of life and sleep quality.
Material And Method:
This study was carried out with a total of 1150 individuals aged 65 and over, living in four nursing homes. Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short Form (ICIQ-SF), and Incontinence Quality of Life Scale (IQOL) were used as data collection tools. The data were collected after obtaining ethics committee and institutional approvals and written consents of the elderly participants.
Results:
The mean age of 1150 elderly individuals included in the study was 75.49 ± 8.62 years. The mean PSQI score of the elderly was 8.33 ± 4.16 and 83.5% of them had poor sleep quality. It was determined that 87.0% of the elderly woke up at night and the most common reason for waking up was the need to use the toilet (60.0%). It was found that the mean ICIQ-SF score of the individuals was 10.65 ± 4.40 and 80.9% of them had bothersome urinary incontinence. The average IQOL score of individuals with incontinence was 63.39 ± 11.26.
Conclusion:
It was determined that almost all of the elderly people included in the present study had sleep problems and 20.0% had incontinence. It was found that sleep quality is not affected by incontinence in the elderly, but the quality of life decreases because of incontinence.
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