The Study of Sleep Quality and Melancholy Condition for Retired Elderly in Taitung County

• Main Authors: Ching-Chi Chen, 陳慶琦
• Other Authors: Dah-Feng Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/dzdm5e

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 健康促進與休閒管理碩士在職專班 === 97 === The aim of this research was to understand the sleep quality and melancholy condition for retired elderly in Taitung County. There were 266 subjects in total, including 233 men and 33 women, who were aged 65 or over 65 retired government employees and teachers, and willing to accept questionnaire survey for this study. The constitutive questionnaire surveys, which included basic demographic information, the depression scale and the sleep quality scale, were applied for this research in order to realize the difference between backgrounds, the sleep quality and melancholy condition for those retired elderly. The results were as follows: 1. Those retired elderly were mostly Taiwanease people, and their body composition was in the normal range. Most of them were maried, and lived with their children and spouse accompanies, and there were only a few elderly people living alone. The majority of them were no smoking, no drinking, and no betel nut eating, but there were 70 percent of them suffering from the high rates of chronic diseases. 2. There were 74.1% retired elderly dissatisfied with their sleep, and nearly 90 percent with poor sleep quality. The average hours of sleep every night was only 6.42 hours. Three most bothering issues for not sleeping well were: 1. midnight toilet, 2. waking up midnight, 3. not easy to fall asleep within 30 mins. There were as many as 96.6% of the elderly showed daytime dysfunction in a week. 3. There was no significance for the sleep quality in different genders, age, nationality, educational level, number of children, living areas, living conditions, economic sources, and whether or not smoking, drinking and eating betel nuts, and also pre-retirement career. Numbers of retired elderly suffered from chronic diseases with a significant level (p<.05) in different marital status. No significance was presented for depression index in different gender, age, nationality, educational level, number of children, living areas, living conditions, economic sources, whether or not smoking, drinking and eating betel nuts, and also the body composition (p>.05). However, a significant level (p<.05) was presented for the number of chronic diseases in different marital status. 4. Retired elderly with melancholy condition tended to have bad sleep quality. The more serious melancholy condition they was, the worse sleep quality they had. Key words: Taitung County retired elderly, sleep quality, melancholy condition.