Abdullahzadeh Mehrdad, Matourypour Pegah, Naji Sayed Ali
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
Department of Nursing, Medical-Surgical Group, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2017 Jun 5;6:53. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_109_15. eCollection 2017.
Elderly people often suffer from sleep disorders. Chamomile due to the many health benefits such as sedation may be effective in improving sleep quality in elderly people. This study aimed to determine the effect of extract on sleep quality in elderly people admitted to nursing homes of Isfahan in 2014.
The present study is a quasi-experimental clinical trial. The study population was 77 cases of elderly hospitalized in nursing homes. Participants were selected through random continuous sampling and divided into intervention and control groups. The intervention group received 400 mg oral capsules of chamomile twice daily, after lunch and after dinner for 4 weeks. The control group did not receive the intervention. Sleep quality in older adults before and after intervention were compared using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and paired - and independent -tests, one-way analysis of variance and liner regression analysis, using SPSS software version 17.
Before intervention, the mean score of sleep quality both experimental and control groups showed no significant difference ( > 0.05). After intervention, the mean score of sleep quality was a significant difference between experimental and control groups ( < 0.001).
Oral administration of chamomile extract has sedative properties in sleep quality of hospitalized elderly patients in nursing homes. Therefore, it can be used in similar cases and nursing care.
老年人常患有睡眠障碍。洋甘菊具有多种健康益处，如镇静作用，可能对改善老年人的睡眠质量有效。本研究旨在确定2014年在伊斯法罕养老院住院的老年人中洋甘菊提取物对睡眠质量的影响。
本研究为准实验性临床试验。研究对象为77例在养老院住院的老年人。通过随机连续抽样选取参与者，并分为干预组和对照组。干预组每天午餐后和晚餐后口服400毫克洋甘菊胶囊，持续4周。对照组未接受干预。使用匹兹堡睡眠质量指数问卷比较老年人干预前后的睡眠质量。使用描述性统计、配对和独立检验、单因素方差分析和线性回归分析对数据进行分析，使用SPSS 17.0软件。
干预前，实验组和对照组的睡眠质量平均得分无显著差异（P>0.05）。干预后，实验组和对照组的睡眠质量平均得分有显著差异（P<0.001）。
口服洋甘菊提取物对养老院住院老年患者的睡眠质量具有镇静作用。因此，它可用于类似病例和护理。
