background: although sleeping problems are common among all age groups, the elderly suffer a higher prevalence of sleep disorders. the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between sleep quality, self-efficacy, and stages of change among the elderly. methods: this descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 36 individuals aged 60-75 years selected through simple random sampling ...

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results the mean age of the children was 64.27 ± 9.3 months. the prevalence of sleep disorders was 36.25%. sleep disorders were significantly associated with age, height, body mass index, residence of children, father’s occupation, mother’s diseases, father’s drug abuse, and parents’ marital status (p < 0.05). conclusions sleep disorders in children threaten growth and development, and are dang...

Introduction: Decrease in sleep quality is an age-related problem which appears in different features such as difficulty in sleeping, over sleeping and unusual behaviors during sleep. Regarding the importance of sleep quality among older adults and also its effects on their quality of life and physical and mental status, the study was conducted to determine the status and quality of sleep in ol...

By early school age, the average child has spent nearly half of his/her life asleep. In fact, it can be argued that sleep is the primary activity of the brain during early development. By two years of age, the average child has spent almost 10,000 hours (nearly 14 months) asleep (1). In these two years, the brain has reached 90% of adult size (2), and the child has attained remarkable complexit...

background and objective : poor sleep, poor quality of sleep and sleepiness are among the common problems as-sociated with learning, memory and educational performance in children and adolescents. considering the lack of pre-vious literature in this field, especially in the city of yazd, iran, a number of high-school students of the city participat-ed in a study to assess sleep problems and inf...