Factors Affecting Quality of Sleep Among Patients with Burn Injury

Abstract

Sleep disturbances in patients with burn can result in negative consequences on physical, emotional, and cognitive status, which may impact patient satisfaction, clinical recovery, wound healing, and hospital length of stay. Aim: This study aimed to assess factors affecting quality of sleep in patients with burn injury. Design: A descriptive explorative design was utilized. Setting: Burn unit at Tanta emergency University Hospitals/ Egypt. Study subject: A purposive sample of sixty patients admitted in the previous mentioned setting. Tools of data collection: Three tools were used for data collection: An interviewing questionnaire, Groningen's sleep quality Scale (GSQS) and factors affecting burn patient's quality of sleep assessment tool. Results: 68.3% of the studied patients had poor sleep quality while, 31.7% had average sleep quality. In addition, there were highly statistically significance positive correlations between GSQS and psychological factors, personal habits factors, health care factors and environmental factors affecting quality of sleep with P= 0.00000. Conclusion: Patients with burn injury experienced poor sleep quality related to the patient's related factors such as psychological factors, physical factors and personal habits related factors, health care related factors and hospital environment. Recommendations: Health education and instructional booklet should be given to burn patients with sleep disorder on how to improve their sleeping pattern and quality of life, with more efforts to improve the awareness of this patients regarding the importance of good sleep and avoidance the risk factors of insomnia.