Factors affecting the sleep status of surgical and medical patients at a University Hospital of Turkey

Objective: to determine the factors that affect sleep status of surgical and medical patients during hospitalisation. methods: this hospital-based,cross-sectional study was conducted at karadeniz technical university's farabi hospital,trabzon,turkey,from july to october 2014. data was gathered using a questionnaire and the form of factors affecting sleep pattern. spss 15 was used for statistical analysis. results: of the 184 participants,there were 92(50%) each from the surgery and medical clinics. the mean score for the form of factors affecting sleep pattern was 84.57±8.65 among the surgical patients and 78.01±17.61 among the medical patients. it was found that noise at the hospital affected sleep patterns among 73(79.3%) of the surgical patients and among 64(69.6%) of the medical patients. there were statistically significant differences between mean scores of the surgical patients and gender and marital status (p=0.001 and p=0.012,respectively),whereas among the medical patients statistically significant differences existed between mean scores and having operation (p=0.09). conclusion: both groups of patients underwent changes in sleep routines during hospitalisation. © 2016,pakistan medical association. all rights reserved.