The Study Of Sleeping Quality Of Nurses On Shifts In Four Three-level A-rate Hospitals In Changsha

Objective: to investigate Clinical shift nurses's general information ,the level of sleep quality and the personal beliefs and attitudes situation in Changsha City of 4 3-level A-rate hospitals; to know the factors of effecting the level of sleep quality; to provide reference for managers to be better allocated classes; to improve the health of nurses and provide a theoretical basis.Methods: based on a unified and exclusion criteria, by clustering random sampling method to use the 310 nurses in the 4 hospitals as a sample to meet the requirements to select four three-level A-rate hospitals in Changsha city randomly; to investigate from July to November in 2008.including: general information, nurses' Sleep Quality Scale, nurses' sleep beliefs and attitudes scale by using SPSS11.0 statistical package for statistical analysis. Statistical methods include descriptive statistical analysis, t-test,F-test,SNK-q test, 'Pearson' correlation analysis and 'Spearman' correlation analysis.Results: 1) Clinical shift nurses' Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scores is 6.2±2.9 in Changsha City of 4 3-level A-rate hospitals .The lowest is 2 score and the highest is 17 score.≥8 score has 24.5%. 2) The score of 25 - 29-year-old shift nurses'sleep quality is higher than <25-year-old; The score of General Nurses is higher than the score of Charge Nurses .3) The scores of factor 3 and factor 4 which the night working time is 1 AM - 8 AM are both higher than the night working time is 10PM - 8AM . 4) the frequency of night -work is positively correlated with factor 2, factor 4, and factor 6, and the total score of sleep quality . 5) The total score of sleep attitude and belief of General Nurse is higher than the Charge Nurse; The total score of sleep attitude and belief of vocational nurse is higher than the undergrate nurse. 6) The score of total sleep quality is negatively correlated with the score of sleep attitude and belief . 7) Clinical shift nurses think that being on shifts influence the quality of sleeping largely; the greatest impact on sleep quality factor is being on shifts.Conclusion: Clinical shift nurses' Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scores is 6.2±2.9 in Changsha City of 4 3-level A-rate hospitals ,It islower than the normal person . To reduce the frequency of late night shift nurses appropriately can improve sleep quality, can shorten sleep latency; can improve sleep habits efficiency; can reduce the use of sleep medicine. The quality of sleep is related with psychology. To change the attitudes and beliefs of nurses to sleeping can improve the quality of sleeping .The mode of night working is related with factor 3 and factor 4 . Wards can use of a reasonable night working mode according to requiring.