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Effects of sleep hygiene training given to pregnant women with restless leg syndrome on their sleep quality

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Abstract

Purpose

This research was conducted to determine the effects of sleep hygiene training given to pregnant women with restless leg syndrome on their sleep quality.

Methods

This study was conducted using a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test, and a control group. When the power analysis was made, a sample size with 5% two-sided significance, 95% confidence interval, and 95% ability to represent the population was calculated to have a total of 128 pregnant women. The sleeping hygiene training was given to two sessions of the experiment group. A personal identification form and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index were used for the collection of data. Percentage distribution, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and chi-square were used for statistical evaluation in addition to dependent and independent groups t tests.

Results

PSQI pre-test mean values revealed that sleep quality in both groups was similarly poor (p = 0.353). It was determined that the mean post-test score after sleep hygiene training was 7.23 ± 2.17 in the experiment group and 10.54 ± 2.20 in the control group, while the difference between the groups was statistically significant (p = 0.000). Accordingly, it was determined that the sleepers in the experimental group had better sleep quality than those in the control group.

Conclusions

Sleep hygiene training given to pregnant women with restless leg syndrome increased sleep quality.

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  1. Private Medical Palace Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey

    Ayşe Sönmez

  2. Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Inonu University, 44280, Malatya, Turkey

    Yeşim Aksoy Derya

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Institutional review board approval was obtained from the research ethics committee of İnönü University. Research complies with the Declaration of Helsinki.

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Informed consent was obtained from all the women who participated in the study.

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The research was accepted as a Master Thesis by the institute of health sciences at Inönü University in June 2017 with the name of “Effects of sleep hygiene training given to pregnant women with restless leg syndrome on their sleep quality.”

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Sönmez, A., Aksoy Derya, Y. Effects of sleep hygiene training given to pregnant women with restless leg syndrome on their sleep quality. Sleep Breath 22, 527–535 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-018-1619-5

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