Introduction: Sleep disorder is prevalent in hemodialysis patients. Treatments such as air way ‎positive pressure and medicines are not usually available or have side effects. Acupressure is a ‎non-invasive method from traditional Chiness medicine. It is proven useful in some studies in ‎treatment of sleep disorder.‎  Aim: This study surveyed the effect of acupressure on...

Introduction: One of the common problems of patients after open heart surgery is sleep disturbance. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of benson relaxation on sleep quality after coronary artery bypass graft. Materials and Methods: In this randomized controlled trial, 80 patients allocated to the benson relaxation and control groups. For the intervention group, Benson's relaxa...

  Background and Aim: Sleep and rest are major needs of human which are included in physiologic needs category of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Since nurses work on morning, evening and night shifts irregularly, they are exposed to sleep problems. The purpose of this study was to investigate the quality of sleep and related factors among staff nurses working in Imam Khomeni hospital affiliated t...

Background: Sleep has a major role in daily cycles and reconstruction of physical and mental abilities. Regarding the importance of this feature, we decided to determine sleep quality in medical students.Methods: A questionnaire containing demographic data, Epworth Sleepiness Scale and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index was prepared. We distributed the questionnaires using a census method to every ...

Introduction and purpose: Hospitalizations can affect the sleep quality in the elderly. A variety of of factors contribute in sleep quality changes. The aim of this study was to evaluate sleep quality and its associated factors in hospitalized elderly patients in hospital. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2015. 200 elderly martyr Beheshti hospital were selec...

The current research was aimed to investigate the relation between sleep quality (mental quality of sleep, sleep latent period, sleep duration, usefulness of sleep habits, sleep disruptors, hypnotics usage, and individuals' daily bad performance) and mental health and job burnout. 202 fire stations employees in Ahvaz were selected by simple random sampling method. Participants completed sleep q...

Introduction: Aging is associated with major changes in the patterns and sleep quality and sleep quality on many factors affect elderly patients. The aim of this study was to Evaluation factors associated with sleep quality in the elderly Persian Gulf Martyrs hospital of Bushehr   Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted descriptively in 2018. The study population included 326 elderl...

  Background & Aims : Sleep disorder is prevalent in patients with migraine headaches. The purpose of this study was to compare the sleep quality and migraine headaches in patients with proper and improper sleep.   Materials & Methods : This study is both descriptive and comparative. The population included all male and female undergraduate students at the University Urmia of the 2011-2012 scho...