epidemiology of sleep hygiene and related factors in older adults

Background: sleep is one of the components of mental and physical health in old age and many factors can affect sleep hygiene in older adults. objectives: this study aimed to investigate the epidemiology of sleep hygiene in older adults and its related factors. methods: this descriptive-analytic study was conducted in 2017 with 598 people aged 60 years and older living in kermanshah, iran, selected through random cluster sampling. data collection tool was a questionnaire with two parts: demographic characteristics (personal and disease) and sleep hygiene index. spss software-16, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (nonparametric tests such as kolmogorov-smirnov, mann-whitney, and kruskal-wallis) were used to analyze the data. the significance level in all of the tests was p < 0.05. results: the findings showed that 64.5% of older adults had poor sleep hygiene. the mean score of sleep hygiene was 28.726.99. our findings showed that there was a significant relationship between sleep hygiene and pulmonary diseases (p < 0.001), diabetes (p < 0.002), sleep apnea (p < 0.001), snoring (p < 0.001), and fatigue and sleepiness during the day (p < 0.001). conclusions: this study showed that more than half of the older adults had poor sleep hygiene. therefore, older adults’ sleep hygiene can be improved through training.