Background : Driving is an occupation that poor quality of sleep and sleepiness may lead to increased errors and accidents in this profession. This study aimed to assess sleep quality of drivers and its association with road accidents in Shahroud .   Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 312 drivers of Shahroud terminals were studied in 1392. Demographic, occupational and Pittsburgh 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...

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...

  Background & objectives: Vitamin D deficiency and poor sleep quality are important factors in health disorders and are common among women. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of physical activity on vitamin D levels and improving sleep quality in women. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on active and inactive women (85 individuals in each group), aged 30...

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 ...

Background and Objectives: Mental and physical fatigue of airport staff reduces their job standards and productive concentration. The objective of this study was to examine sleep quality and its effect on cognitive failure and job performance among airport staff. Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, 200 staff of an airport were chosen by simple random sampling method. The data coll...

  Background & Aim : Nurses with the nature of their own career and profession confronting with many issues and tension in their work environment and different work shifts in day and night time make them susceptible to sleep disorders, particularly where the majority of nurses are females who have the responsibilities of caring of their families and other social and professional roles which lim...