| Sleep Change of Older Adults and Nursing Research |
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Mi soon Song1, Shin mi Kim2, Jin Joo Oh3 |
1Associate Professor, Seoul National University
2Assistant Professor, Dae-Jon College
3School of Public Health, Seoul National University |
| 노인수면 연구와 간호 |
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송미순1, 김신미2, 오진주3 |
1서울대학교 간호대학
2대전전문대학교 간호과
3서울대학교 보건대학원 |
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| Abstract |
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Elderly is the fastest growing population among all age group and sleep impairment is one of the most frequent complaint found in older adults.
Efforts are underwayed to help the client with sleep impairment by nursing researchers. However, there are only a few nursing literatures regarding sleep in general, and none for elderly in Korea to date.
The purpose of this review is to examine researches related to sleep in elderly for its content, methodology, perspectives, and theory in order to suggest potential research thrusts. Since little research has been done by nursing scholars and the sleep research is interdisciplinary, the review was conducted through all the available literatures by authors regardless the specialty because of their rel evance to nursing.
Sleep is an essential component for health and the quality of life of individuals. Normally, sleep pattern changes with advancing age. These changes often result in sleep impairment followed by various problems such as fatigue, drowsiness, anxiety, po tential injury, cognition decline, physical problems, and etc.
Nurses are in the best position to prevent, monitor, evaluate and intervene for sleep problems of elderly, by their work charateristics of 24hour around clock work for patients and primary health work involvement. In order to encourage more nursing research related to sleep, the state of art of sleep research has been reviewed and organized by follow ing categories : sleep pattern change in later life ;
factors related to sleep impairment ; nursing intervention and nursing research considerations. It is suggested that nursing researches on sleep of Korean elderly is needed to identify the sleep pattern change to determine the extent of the problems and to develop nursing strategies feasible for Korean elderly, for better quality of life of older adults. |
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