Chronic illness and subjective quality of sleep in the elderly
| Autor: | M. T. Hyyppa, Knuts Lr, M. Seppälä, L. Sourander, Olli Impivaara, I. Räihä |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Aging Logistic regression medicine Odds Ratio Humans Hypnotics and Sedatives Medical history Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry medicine.disease Sleep in non-human animals Self Concept Stratified sampling Heart failure Structured interview Chronic Disease Female Geriatrics and Gerontology business Sleep Esophagitis |
| Zdroj: | Aging (Milan, Italy). 6(2) |
| ISSN: | 0394-9532 |
| Popis: | The effect of chronic illness on the subjective quality of sleep, and the use of hypnotics was studied in a stratified random sample of elderly people. Six hundred subjects aged 65 years or over were included in the study. A structured interview on the quality of sleep and medical history was carried out. In addition, the majority of diagnoses were confirmed from the national health insurance documents of the subjects. Logistic regression analysis disclosed that only perceived poor health and peptic ulcer or esophagitis were associated with perceived poor sleep. Age did not contribute to the quality of sleep. Age over 80 years and the presence of peptic ulcer or esophagitis, heart failure, cholelithiasis, and, in particular, depression were associated with the habitual use of hypnotics. The results stress the importance of perceived poor general health status, and acid- related gastrointestinal diseases as the determinants of subjective poor sleep, rather than age or many specific somatic diseases as such. On the other hand, depression is a major determinant for the habitual use of hypnotics. (Aging Clin. Exp. Res. 6: 91- 96, 1994) |
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