A Descriptive Study to Assess the Quality of Sleep and Sleep Hygiene among Patients Diagnosed with Neurotic Disorders attending OPD, LGBRIMH, Tezpur and to Develop a Sleep Hygiene Education Protocol

Stress is among the important factors threatening mental health and occurrence of daily stress would affect individuals'physical and mental health and in the long term, can lead to neurotic and stress related disorders.Many experts believe that people learn insomnia and can also learn how to sleep better.Good sleep hygiene is the term used which includes some practices like -maintaining a regular sleep -wake schedule, using the sleeping bed only for the purpose of sleep or sexual activities, keeping the bedroom environment soothing and calm and free from any distractions like bright lights, noise, electronics etc.An individual may have a poor quality of sleep due to some improper practices of sleep hygiene. A non -experimental approach, descriptive research design was used in the present study to accomplish the objectives. Purposive sampling technique was used to obtain the adequate size of the sample. The study population comprises the diagnosed patients of neurotic and stress related disorders attending OPD of LGBRIMH, Tezpur. Fourtyseven (47) patients diagnosed with neurotic and stress related disorders were selected for the study. Socio -demographic and clinical proforma and standardized tools: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI) Scales were used for data collection. Statistical analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics with the help of SPSS software version 20. The result showed that the mean Sleep HygieneIndex score was 24.577.42with a range between13 -47.And upon analysis it was found that among the participants 61.7% (29) were having SHI Score<25 which indicates good sleep hygiene.The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scores showed that majority of the participants 85.1% (40) were having PSQI Score of 5 -21 indicating poor quality of sleep.It was also found that there was a significant association between domicile ( 2 = 4.748, p= 0.029) and sleep hygiene.Pearson correlation showed that there was significant correlation between sleep hygiene and quality of sleep of the participants (r=0.550**,p=0.000) at 0.01 level of significance.