A Study on Adult Women's Sleep Disorder and Depression

Kim, Jeong Sun

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study is to study sleep disorder, sleep pattern, and depression in adult women, and to offer basic data for a program of the improvement of women's health and nursing intervention. METHOD: A structured questionnaire was carried out from September 1, 2001 to October 30, 2001 on the subject of 441 females, who are above 18 years old and lived in Seoul. This research tool measured insomnia with APA's insomnia scale(1994), sleep pattern and sleep disorder factors scale(Shin et al(1999)'s), and depression with Radloff's CES-D scale (1977). The data were analyzed with a SPSS program for descriptive statistics, x2-test, and t-test. RESULT: The result were as follows; 1) 35.1% of all participants have insomnia. 2) Sleep disorder group appeared shorter(50.98+/-29.41min.) than normal group(73.03+/-38.7min.) in daytime sleepiness(p=0.001). 3) Factors of sleep disorder were stress(76.6%), worry(55.6%), without reason(39.6%), and noise outside(37.4%). 4) In relation between sleep disorder and depression, group with sleep disorder(20.20+/-11.06) marked higher depression score than normal group(14.25+/-8.81)(p<0.0001).
CONCLUSION
Based upon these finding, sleep disorder in adult women was influenced by psychological factors, group with sleep disorder showed a higher depression score than normal group, and which indicated correlation with sleep disorder and depression. This study shows that nursing intervention on women's sleep disorder and depression is needed and further research be done to verify the results.